What can't be cured must be endured.

Patience is a virtue.

The leopard does not change his spots.

The exception which proves the rule.

Make hay while the sun shines.

It never rains but it pours.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Business before pleasure.

There's no smoke without fire.

The bread always falls buttered side down.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Tell the truth and shame the Devil.

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

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

Don't meet troubles half-way.

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

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Don't rock the boat.

Another day, another dollar.

Good things come in small packages.

Softly, softly, catchee monkey.

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

Time is money.

Don't mix business with pleasure.

Time is a great healer.

Keep your powder dry.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Life begins at forty.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Actions speak louder than words.

Nine tailors make a man.

It's no use crying over spilt milk.

A person is known by the company they keep.

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

Waste not, want not.

You can't win them all.

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

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Fish and guests smell after three days.

In the midst of life we are in death.

A poor worker blames the tools.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

A leopard can't change its spots.

Love makes the world go round.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Between two stools one falls to the ground.

Give credit where credit is due.

He who hesitates is lost.

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

East is east, and west is west.

Don't put the cart before the horse.

Hard work never did anyone any harm.

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

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

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

There is honour among thieves.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

Money doesn't grow on trees.

There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle.

All that glitters is not gold.

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

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

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

He who laughs last, laughs longest.

Live and learn.

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

Quid pro quo.

Flattery will get you nowhere.

Good talk saves the food.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

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

It's never too late to mend.

It's always darkest just before the dawn.

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

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

Do as I say, not as I do.

The best defence is a good offence.

There but for the grace of God, go I.

It takes a thief to catch a thief.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

A prophet is not recognized in his own land.

Love of money is the root of all evil.

Opposites attract.

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

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

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

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Give the Devil his due.

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

The best-laid plans go astray.

The end justifies the means.

Dead men tell no tales.

Don't cast pearls before swine.

The pen is mightier than sword.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Tomorrow is another day.

Many hands make light work.

A bad penny always turns up.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

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

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

Charity covers a multitude of sins.

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

Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Two heads are better than one.

One good deed deserves another.

Variety is the spice of life.

No man is an island.

Money is the root of all evil.

Don't throw good money after bad.

One swallow does not a summer make.

A good beginning makes a good ending.

Don't change horses in midstream.

Failing to plan, is planning to fail.

Cleanliness is next to godliness.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

A stitch in time saves nine.

A watched pot never boils.

Hindsight is twenty-twenty.

Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.

Don't get mad, get even.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

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

Blue are the hills that are far away.

Money makes the world go round.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Only fools and horses work.

Let bygones be bygones.

Fair exchange is no robbery.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

The wages of sin is death.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

Seize the day.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

To err is human; to forgive divine.

Tomorrow never comes.

Don't wash your dirty linen in public.

Don't blow your own trumpet.

First impressions are the most lasting.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

The early bird gets the worm.

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

Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.

A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.

A house is not a home.

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

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Still waters run deep.

An army marches on its stomach.

Home is where the heart is.

Fight fire with fire.

Don't upset the apple-cart.

Handsome is as handsome does.

Speak as you find.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

The apple never falls far from the tree.

Good things come to those who wait.

Everyone has their price.

Love is blind.

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

A ship in the harbour is safe, but that is not what a ship is for.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Needs must when the devil drives.

You reap what you sow.

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

A dog is a man's best friend.

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

Beauty is only skin deep.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Little pitchers have big ears.

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

Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.

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

Big fish eat little fish.

The Devil has all the best tunes.

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

Persuasion is better than force.

Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.

A miss is as good as a mile.

Once bitten, twice shy.

Make love not war.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

For everything there is a season.

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

You can't see the forest for the trees.

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

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Nothing new under the sun.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Let well alone.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

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

All's fair in love and war.

Knowledge is power.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Never tell tales out of school.

Different strokes for different folks.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

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

Children should be seen and not heard.

Haste makes waste.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

What goes around comes around.

Cheats never prosper.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

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

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

Bad money drives out good.

Every stick has two ends.

The truth will out.

No pain, no gain.

It's best to be on the safe side.

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Time and tide wait for no one.

A man is known by his friends.

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

Cut your coat to suit your cloth.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Paddle your own canoe.

Physician, heal thyself.

Any port in a storm.

Don't let the cat out of the bag.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

Beware the Ides of March.

A cat has nine lives.

Don't sweat the small stuff.

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

Fortune favours the brave.

Let not the sun go down on your wrath.

Crime doesn't pay.

Enough is enough.

The show must go on.

Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear.

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

Strike while the iron is hot.

Live and let live.

Ignorance is bliss.

Fight the good fight.

Less said, soon mended.

Know which side your bread is buttered.

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

Small things amuse small minds.

You are what you eat.

You win some, you lose some.

The more the merrier.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

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

All roads lead to Rome.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

Slow and steady wins the race.

To the victor go the spoils.

Practice what you preach.

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

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

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

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

Blood is thicker than water.

All's well that ends well.

Bread always falls buttered side down.

All things must pass.

Beat swords into ploughshares.

There's no time like the present.

Faith will move mountains.

If you play with fire, you will get burnt.

Honesty is the best policy.

Beggars can't be choosers.

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.

Fine words butter no parsnips.

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

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.

One hand washes the other.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

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

Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.

A thing begun is half done.

You can't get blood out of a stone.

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

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

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Third time lucky.

Let the buyer beware.

A cat may look at a king.

You can't always get what you want.

There are two sides to every question.

No man can serve two masters.

Two is company, but three's a crowd.

Look before you leap.

Youth is wasted on the young.

No news is good news.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

Hope springs eternal.

Don't shoot the messenger.

Many are called, but few are chosen.

Attack is the best form of defence.

You can have too much of a good thing.

You can't make bricks without straw.

Walls have ears.

A problem shared is a problem halved.

Accidents will happen.

Pride comes before a fall.

You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.

It's better to give than to receive.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

Love will find a way.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Don't cross a bridge until you come to it.

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

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

It takes two to make a quarrel.

You are never too old to learn.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

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

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

Never speak ill of the dead.

There's no place like home.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

Time flies.

April showers bring forth May flowers.

Manners maketh the man.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Half a loaf is better than none.

Great minds think alike.

Virtue is its own reward.

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Time will tell.

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

The bigger, the better.

Fire is a good servant but a bad master.

Let the dead bury the dead.

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

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

Slow but sure.

There's an exception to every rule.

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

A fish always rots from the head.

Truth will out.

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

Robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Children and fools tell the truth.

Might is right.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

Every dog has its day.

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

Possession is nine points of the law.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

Don't let the grass grow under your feet.

If you build it, they will come.

Better safe than sorry.

If you can't be good, be careful.

It's all grist to the mill.

Better late than never.

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

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

Bad news travels fast.

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

Ask no questions and hear no lies.

Never go to bed on an argument.

It takes a thief to catch a thief .

The customer is always right.

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

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

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

All you need is love.

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

Keep your chin up.

When in Rome, do as Romans do.

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

Share and share alike.

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

There's safety in numbers.

Always put your best foot forward.

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

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Life's not all beer and skittles.

Don't burn your bridges behind you.

Worrying never did anyone any good.

It's better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

Only the good die young.

One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.

As you sow, so you shall reap.

Who pays the piper, calls the tune.

Revenge is sweet.

Money isn't everything.

Enough is as good as a feast.

More haste, less speed.

An man's home is his castle.

You can't take it with you.

Blessed are the peacemakers.

Money talks.

You can't judge a book by its cover.

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

History repeats itself.

Marriages are made in heaven.

Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

Curiosity killed the cat.

Even a worm will turn.

If the cap fits, wear it.

Don't put new wine into old bottles.

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

Seek and you shall find.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

When one door shuts, another opens.

Two is company, but three's a crowd.

A new broom sweeps clean.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

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

Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.

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

Charity begins at home.

All publicity is good publicity.

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

Silence construes consent.

Penny wise and pound foolish.

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

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Wonders will never cease.

All good things come to those that wait.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

There's one born every minute.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

Moderation in all things.

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

The bottom line is the bottom line.

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

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

Cowards die many times before their deaths.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

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

Nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

Once a thief, always a thief.

Nothing succeeds like success.

Pearls of wisdom.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Go the extra mile.

Get out while the getting is good.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

When the cat's away the mice will play.

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

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

Put your best foot forward.

Less is more.

It goes without saying.

A picture paints a thousand words.

Forewarned is forearmed.

You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family.

To every thing there is a season.

Clothes do not make the man.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

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

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

The Devil looks after his own.

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

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

Christmas comes but once a year.

Birds of a feather flock together.

Never give a sucker an even break.

Shrouds have no pockets.

Misery loves company.

Learn to walk before you run.

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

Like father, like son.

Forgive and forget.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

The Devil is in the details.

It's easy to be wise after the event.

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

What goes up must come down.

Good fences make good neighbours.

First come, first served.

The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.