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Time is a great healer.
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
It takes a thief to catch a thief .
Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.
There is one law for the rich and another law for the poor.
Make haste slowly.
The Devil looks after his own.
Put your best foot forward.
Let bygones be bygones.
An idle brain is the devil's workshop.
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Nothing is certain but death and taxes.
The truth will out.
One half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
The show must go on.
Feed a cold and starve a fever.
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
Physician, heal thyself.
Actions speak louder than words.
Between two stools one falls to the ground.
A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.
The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.
Live and learn.
It's no use shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.
Little pitchers have big ears.
It never rains but it pours.
Less said, soon mended.
Two is company, but three's a crowd.
It's the empty can that makes the most noise.
One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
It's always darkest just before the dawn.
As you sow, so you shall reap.
It takes two to tango.
Money makes the world go round.
What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
Home is where the heart is.
An empty vessel makes much noise.
Don't throw good money after bad.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
You can't judge a book by its cover.
Keep your powder dry.
There's none so blind as those who will not see.
Don't cast pearls before swine.
There are none so blind as those, that will not see.
It's best to be on the safe side.
If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas.
Better safe than sorry.
Money is the root of all evil.
You can't make bricks without straw.
An eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth.
What can't be cured must be endured.
Cleanliness is next to godliness.
You pays your money and you takes your choice.
If you build it, they will come.
Beggars can't be choosers.
You are never too old to learn.
The best-laid plans go astray.
Don't change horses in midstream.
A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
When the cat's away the mice will play.
He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.
Nature abhors a vacuum.
There's one born every minute.
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
If anything can go wrong, it will.
There's no time like the present.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Everyone has their price.
Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
Always put your best foot forward.
One who sups with the devil, should have a long spoon.
It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Jack of all trades, master of none.
If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers.
Life is just a bowl of cherries.
Great minds think alike.
It's better to wear out, than to rust.
More haste, less speed.
Opposites attract.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
When one door shuts, another opens.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Early to bed and early to rise, makes one healthy, wealthy and wise.
Attack is the best form of defence.
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Pearls of wisdom.
Fish and guests smell after three days.
Nine tailors make a man.
As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it.
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
Life is what you make it.
Hope springs eternal.
Don't shoot the messenger.
A new broom sweeps clean.
Good talk saves the food.
Don't meet troubles half-way.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
Nothing succeeds like success.
It's all grist to the mill.
It goes without saying.
Blood is thicker than water.
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.
Don't let the bastards grind you down.
A dog is a man's best friend.
Handsome is as handsome does.
Time and tide wait for no one.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
Flattery will get you nowhere.
One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.
Cross the stream where it is shallowest.
Let sleeping dogs lie.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Life begins at forty.
Go the extra mile.
Many hands make light work.
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
Pride comes before a fall.
A poor worker blames the tools.
A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse.
Ignorance is bliss.
Beware the Ides of March.
Business before pleasure.
The wages of sin is death.
A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.
Practice what you preach.
Possession is nine points of the law.
March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.
Don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
Don't get mad, get even.
Don't test the depth of water with both feet.
The Devil has all the best tunes.
You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.
There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't want.
Easy come, easy go.
Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.
Share and share alike.
There's no fool like an old fool.
First impressions are the most lasting.
Blue are the hills that are far away.
Better the Devil you know than the Devil you don't.
Let well alone.
A stitch in time saves nine.
Don't burn your bridges behind you.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Cowards die many times before their deaths.
One swallow does not a summer make.
It's better to be poor and healthy, than sick and wealthy.
You can't take it with you.
Hide in plain sight.
Bread always falls buttered side down.
There's no smoke without fire.
Waste not, want not.
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
Stupid is as stupid does.
The exception which proves the rule.
It takes two to make a quarrel.
One hand washes the other.
Never speak ill of the dead.
Fire is a good servant but a bad master.
There's a time and a place for everything.
It's easy to be wise after the event.
The leopard does not change his spots.
Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
A picture paints a thousand words.
Set a thief to catch a thief.
The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
No man can serve two masters.
Learn to walk before you run.
If at first you don't succeed try, try and try again.
Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
If God had meant us to fly, he'd have given us wings.
Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.
Once a thief, always a thief.
All's well that ends well.
There's no place like home.
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
Different strokes for different folks.
A person is known by the company they keep.
There is honour among thieves.
If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
The bottom line is the bottom line.
Make hay while the sun shines.
Better late than never.
Tell the truth and shame the Devil.
Big fish eat little fish.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Slow and steady wins the race.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Into every life a little rain must fall.
Like father, like son.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
A place for everything and everything in its place.
Fight fire with fire.
Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.
From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
For everything there is a season.
It's better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
Time flies.
Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves.
A good man is hard to find.
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.
Necessity is the mother of all invention.
Cut your coat to suit your cloth.
Worrying never did anyone any good.
Those who do not learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.
Seize the day.
Let the buyer beware.
A problem shared is a problem halved.
Quid pro quo.
Fine words butter no parsnips.
No news is good news.
A cat may look at a king.
There's more than one way to skin a cat.
Silence construes consent.
Seek and you shall find.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
You can have too much of a good thing.
Still waters run deep.
Oil and water don't mix.
The best is the enemy of the good.
Any port in a storm.
Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.
Rain before seven, fine before eleven.
Don't put the cart before the horse.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
It's better to give than to receive.
Good things come to those who wait.
Once bitten, twice shy.
You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
To err is human; to forgive divine.
A house is not a home.
Truth will out.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Every picture tells a story.
Never give a sucker an even break.
Don't spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar.
Make love not war.
You can't run with the hare, and hunt with the hounds.
Christmas comes but once a year.
Paddle your own canoe.
Dead men tell no tales.
Faint heart never won fair lady.
A thing begun is half done.
Hindsight is twenty-twenty.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
He that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing.
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
You can't always get what you want.
Seeing is believing.
Finders keepers, losers weepers.
Clothes do not make the man.
You can't get blood out of a stone.
Silence is golden.
You reap what you sow.
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.
Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Crime doesn't pay.
It takes a thief to catch a thief.
All roads lead to Rome.
Marriages are made in heaven.
Children and fools tell the truth.
The best things in life are free.
Love of money is the root of all evil.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
All good things come to those that wait.
A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.
Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.
Variety is the spice of life.
Keep your chin up.
Speak as you find.
Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
In the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king.
Grief divided is made lighter.
All you need is love.
Everyone wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.
Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.
Bad money drives out good.
Give credit where credit is due.
You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.
Money talks.
Love is blind.
Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear.
Empty bags cannot stand upright.
Might is right.
All the world loves a lover.
Haste makes waste.
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
Softly, softly, catchee monkey.
One law for the rich and another law for the poor.
Let the dead bury the dead.
Good things come in small packages.
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
Time will tell.
Don't put new wine into old bottles.
Fight the good fight.
The age of miracles is past.
Third time lucky.
One good deed deserves another.
It's no use crying over spilt milk.
The longest journey starts with a single step.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
No rest for the wicked.
You can't see the forest for the trees.
Only fools and horses work.
Who pays the piper, calls the tune.
Even a worm will turn.
Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.
In the midst of life we are in death.
Where there's a will, there's a way.
Beauty is only skin deep.
Small things amuse small minds.
Live and let live.
Youth is wasted on the young.
If the cap fits, wear it.
Work expands so as to fill the time available.
Accidents will happen.
Barking dogs seldom bite.
Give them an inch and they'll take a mile.
He who hesitates is lost.
An man's home is his castle.
Birds of a feather flock together.
April showers bring forth May flowers.
Ask no questions and hear no lies.
The bigger, the better.
Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.
The Devil makes work for idle hands.
The end justifies the means.
Blessed are the peacemakers.
A leopard can't change its spots.
You can't fit a round peg in a square hole.
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
Needs must when the devil drives.
The pen is mightier than sword.
Forewarned is forearmed.
While the cat's away, the mice will play.
Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.
It's better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
All publicity is good publicity.
A prophet is not recognized in his own land.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.
Cheats never prosper.
Don't let the grass grow under your feet.
All good things must come to an end.
March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb.
Less is more.
A watched pot never boils.
A word to the wise is enough.
Tomorrow never comes.
To the victor go the spoils.
Half a loaf is better than none.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
Wonders will never cease.
There's an exception to every rule.
Get out while the getting is good.
Fortune favours the brave.
Horses for courses.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Where there is smoke there is fire.
Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
Fall seven times. Stand up eight.
Fair exchange is no robbery.
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Virtue is its own reward.
Another day, another dollar.
Strike while the iron is hot.
He who laughs last, laughs longest.
Give the Devil his due.
Do as I say, not as I do.
Appearances can be deceptive.
One man's meat is another man's poison.
A good beginning makes a good ending.
Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.
Misery loves company.
Don't mix business with pleasure.
Good fences make good neighbours.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
If you can't be good, be careful.
Every dog has its day.
An army marches on its stomach.
While there is life, there is hope.
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
East, west, home's best.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
Let the punishment fit the crime.
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Hard work never did anyone any harm.
What goes around comes around.
There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip.
You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
You win some, you lose some.
'tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Tomorrow is another day.
It's never too late to mend.
No pain, no gain.
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
A rising tide lifts all boats.
No man is an island.
There's no such thing as bad publicity.
A miss is as good as a mile.
Know which side your bread is buttered.
Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
A ship in the harbour is safe, but that is not what a ship is for.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
Discretion is the better part of valour.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Slow but sure.
If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Bad news travels fast.
There's none so deaf as those who will not hear.
East is east, and west is west.
Patience is a virtue.
Life's not all beer and skittles.
God helps those who help themselves.
Charity covers a multitude of sins.
There are two sides to every question.
Faith will move mountains.
There is no accounting for tastes.
The early bird gets the worm.
A cat has nine lives.
They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.
It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Children should be seen and not heard.
One person's trash is another person's treasure.
The Devil is in the details.
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
Enough is as good as a feast.
The customer is always right.
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
Money doesn't grow on trees.
You can't win them all.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
It's an ill wind that blows no one any good.
Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.
Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Walls have ears.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
The best defence is a good offence.
Knowledge is power.
It's the singer not the song.
You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family.
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.
Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.
Don't cross a bridge until you come to it.
Put your shoulder to the wheel.
All things must pass.
Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.
Charity begins at home.
Don't let the cat out of the bag.
History repeats itself.
Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
Love makes the world go round.
Revenge is sweet.
Forgive and forget.
Look before you leap.
Money isn't everything.
Persuasion is better than force.
To live by the sword is to die by the sword.
The apple never falls far from the tree.
You are what you eat.
Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Watch the doughnut, not the hole.
Beat swords into ploughshares.
Time is money.
In for a penny, in for a pound.
Time is money.
One person's trash is another person's treasure.
Talk is cheap.
Love will find a way.
A man is known by his friends.
Moderation in all things.
Don't upset the apple-cart.
Cold hands, warm heart.
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