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