If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Pearls of wisdom.

Two heads are better than one.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

You are what you eat.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Work expands so as to fill the time available.

There's no time like the present.

No pain, no gain.

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

Better the Devil you know than the Devil you don't.

Out of sight, out of mind.

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

Give them an inch and they'll take a mile.

Better safe than sorry.

The bread always falls buttered side down.

All that glitters is not gold.

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.

Enough is enough.

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Oil and water don't mix.

Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer.

A stitch in time saves nine.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

It's never too late to mend.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

Curiosity killed the cat.

There is no accounting for tastes.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

It's all grist to the mill.

History repeats itself.

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

Needs must when the devil drives.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Two is company, but three's a crowd.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Attack is the best form of defence.

Don't cast pearls before swine.

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Still waters run deep.

Life's not all beer and skittles.

Adversity and loss make a man wise.

One hand washes the other.

You reap what you sow.

The early bird gets the worm.

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

Seeing is believing.

In the midst of life we are in death.

A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client.

Love is blind.

The customer is always right.

Wonders will never cease.

There but for the grace of God, go I.

Forewarned is forearmed.

Love will find a way.

There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.

Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.

An eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth.

It's better to be poor and healthy, than sick and wealthy.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

What can't be cured must be endured.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

Nothing is certain but death and taxes.

All the world loves a lover.

The truth will out.

Faith will move mountains.

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.

It's the singer not the song.

Don't put new wine into old bottles.

Tomorrow never comes.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

Different strokes for different folks.

Money makes the world go round.

Don't change horses in midstream.

A miss is as good as a mile.

All things must pass.

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Don't burn your bridges behind you.

Tell the truth and shame the Devil.

Never go to bed on an argument.

You win some, you lose some.

If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

Clothes do not make the man.

Hard work never did anyone any harm.

Keep your powder dry.

Cheats never prosper.

One person's trash is another person's treasure.

Flattery will get you nowhere.

While there is life, there is hope.

Only fools and horses work.

It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

It's no use shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.

Time is money.

A golden key can open any door.

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.

A good beginning makes a good ending.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

You can't get blood out of a stone.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.

Quid pro quo.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

One half of the world does not know how the other half lives.

First come, first served.

There's no smoke without fire.

Good fences make good neighbours.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

The exception which proves the rule.

Money talks.

Once a thief, always a thief.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.

Practice what you preach.

He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Practice makes perfect.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Any port in a storm.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Always put your best foot forward.

Time and tide wait for no one.

In the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king.

Let well alone.

Nine tailors make a man.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Like father, like son.

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

Money doesn't grow on trees.

No man can serve two masters.

East, west, home's best.

Tomorrow is another day.

One swallow does not a summer make.

Don't put the cart before the horse.

Nothing new under the sun.

Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.

All good things must come to an end.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

Every dog has its day.

A cat may look at a king.

You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

Don't rock the boat.

There are plenty more fish in the sea.

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

Don't let the cat out of the bag.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

A dog is a man's best friend.

Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.

Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves.

Let the dead bury the dead.

Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.

If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well.

When one door shuts, another opens.

Every stick has two ends.

A bad penny always turns up.

What goes up must come down.

Blessed are the peacemakers.

Beauty is only skin deep.

March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb.

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

Birds of a feather flock together.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.

Great minds think alike.

An man's home is his castle.

Don't upset the apple-cart.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

A man is known by his friends.

A prophet is not recognized in his own land.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

A word to the wise is enough.

The Devil looks after his own.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

A person is known by the company they keep.

First things first.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Half a loaf is better than none.

Enough is as good as a feast.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

Fight the good fight.

If you build it, they will come.

It takes one to know one.

As you sow, so you shall reap.

Look before you leap.

If you play with fire, you will get burnt.

Haste makes waste.

A good man is hard to find.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

There's none so blind as those who will not see.

An empty vessel makes much noise.

Ignorance is bliss.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

Bad news travels fast.

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

There's more than one way to skin a cat.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

Physician, heal thyself.

The more the merrier.

'tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.

Failing to plan, is planning to fail.

Early to bed and early to rise, makes one healthy, wealthy and wise.

Hide in plain sight.

A house is not a home.

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

Dead men tell no tales.

If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers.

All good things come to those that wait.

Little pitchers have big ears.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

Don't test the depth of water with both feet.

You can't see the forest for the trees.

The best things in life are free.

Let bygones be bygones.

Only the good die young.

The best-laid plans go astray.

One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.

Cowards die many times before their deaths.

The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.

Red sky at night shepherd's delight; red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning.

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Shrouds have no pockets.

There are two sides to every question.

A new broom sweeps clean.

It's an ill wind that blows no one any good.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

All's well that ends well.

Get out while the getting is good.

Where there's a will, there's a way.

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

Might is right.

If the mountain won't come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain.

He who laughs last, laughs longest.

Everyone has their price.

Never give a sucker an even break.

It's better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.

You can't fit a round peg in a square hole.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

Money is the root of all evil.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

Love of money is the root of all evil.

Life is what you make it.

Ask no questions and hear no lies.

Manners maketh the man.

There's a time and a place for everything.

Better late than never.

There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

If God had meant us to fly, he'd have given us wings.

Appearances can be deceptive.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

East is east, and west is west.

Empty bags cannot stand upright.

Virtue is its own reward.

No man is an island.

First impressions are the most lasting.

Good talk saves the food.

No rest for the wicked.

Fight fire with fire.

Don't spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar.

What goes around comes around.

The best defence is a good offence.

Live and learn.

Even a worm will turn.

Waste not, want not.

Home is where the heart is.

Opposites attract.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

While the cat's away, the mice will play.

Everyone wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.

One man's meat is another man's poison.

Persuasion is better than force.

A poor worker blames the tools.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

It takes a thief to catch a thief.

Don't let the grass grow under your feet.

Business before pleasure.

Third time lucky.

Good things come in small packages.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

The pen is mightier than sword.

The bigger, the better.

Charity covers a multitude of sins.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

A cat has nine lives.

Charity begins at home.

Once bitten, twice shy.

You are never too old to learn.

It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.

The wages of sin is death.

Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.

One good deed deserves another.

Money isn't everything.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

The end justifies the means.

All roads lead to Rome.

Share and share alike.

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Handsome is as handsome does.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

Crime doesn't pay.

It's the empty can that makes the most noise.

There's one born every minute.

To the victor go the spoils.

Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.

Seek and you shall find.

It's easy to be wise after the event.

Truth will out.

Don't mix business with pleasure.

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

Each to their own.

If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

Fortune favours the brave.

Go the extra mile.

Big fleas have little fleas upon their back to bite 'em.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

Christmas comes but once a year.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Between two stools one falls to the ground.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Moderation in all things.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Revenge is sweet.

The leopard does not change his spots.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Don't throw good money after bad.

Silence is golden.

There are none so blind as those, that will not see.

If the cap fits, wear it.

You can't always get what you want.

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Know which side your bread is buttered.

There's none so deaf as those who will not hear.

Easy come, easy go.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

It takes two to make a quarrel.

There's safety in numbers.

Beware the Ides of March.

A watched pot never boils.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

Less said, soon mended.

All you need is love.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.

Speak as you find.

Pride comes before a fall.

Penny wise and pound foolish.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

It's better to give than to receive.

What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

The Devil is in the details.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

If you can't be good, be careful.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.

One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

More haste, less speed.

No news is good news.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse.

To live by the sword is to die by the sword.

A picture paints a thousand words.

For everything there is a season.

Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.

Bad money drives out good.

You can't run with the hare, and hunt with the hounds.

Silence construes consent.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.

One who sups with the devil, should have a long spoon.

Don't blow your own trumpet.

You can't win them all.

Many hands make light work.

Watch the doughnut, not the hole.

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

You can have too much of a good thing.

Softly, softly, catchee monkey.

A fish always rots from the head.

There's no place like home.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

Jack of all trades, master of none.

Give the Devil his due.

Make haste slowly.

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.

It's no use crying over spilt milk.

Those who do not learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.

Blue are the hills that are far away.

An army marches on its stomach.

The Devil has all the best tunes.

He that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing.

Honesty is the best policy.

Patience is a virtue.

April showers bring forth May flowers.

It takes two to tango.

Live and let live.

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

Less is more.

Beat swords into ploughshares.

Talk is cheap.

Small things amuse small minds.

Grief divided is made lighter.

It goes without saying.

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.

A thing begun is half done.

To err is human; to forgive divine.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Paddle your own canoe.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Never tell tales out of school.

Worrying never did anyone any good.

Fish and guests smell after three days.

Good things come to those who wait.

To every thing there is a season.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Slow but sure.

Seize the day.

The Devil makes work for idle hands.

Beggars can't be choosers.

It's best to be on the safe side.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

There is honour among thieves.

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

Walls have ears.

Another day, another dollar.

Make love not war.

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

When in Rome, do as Romans do.

The apple never falls far from the tree.

Blood is thicker than water.

It ain't over, till it's over.

One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

Don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.

You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.

The age of miracles is past.

Every picture tells a story.

There is one law for the rich and another law for the poor.

The longest journey starts with a single step.

Hope springs eternal.

What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't want.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Time is a great healer.

Variety is the spice of life.

Marriages are made in heaven.

Learn to walk before you run.

Cold hands, warm heart.

All's fair in love and war.

Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.

Never speak ill of the dead.

Time will tell.

Be careful what you wish for. You might just get it.

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

Knowledge is power.

There's an exception to every rule.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

It takes a thief to catch a thief .

Keep your chin up.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

One law for the rich and another law for the poor.

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

You can't make bricks without straw.

Life begins at forty.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Feed a cold and starve a fever.