It's an ill wind that blows the bagpipes.
Where there's life, there's brass.
Many a mickle makes nine.
Sarcasm is the better part of valour.
A stitch in time keeps the Doctor away.
Prevention is worth two in the bush.
Blood is thicker than a silver lining.
Let sleeping dogs put all their eggs in one basket.
I wouldn't touch it with my cup of tea.
One in the hand makes light work.
Too many cooks make a sow's ear into an oreille de cochon.
He who laughs last is lost.
These are all wonderfully profound.
It's a wise bairn that ends well.
It's always darkest before you leap.
It's cold enough to freeze the balls off more than you can chew.
Zo gelijk als hol en bol.
Loose lips laugh last.
He who pays the piper gets monkeys.
You ate it, you killed it.
As ye sow, so shall ye weed.
It is better to travel hopefully than never to have loved at all.
Half a sixpence is better than two in the bush.
There's no business. Result: misery
Slow and steady wins fair lady.
Carpe canem.
Pay peanuts and carry a big stick.
A stitch in time saves a look before you leap.
Before you criticise a man, make lemonade.
He who smelt it spoils the broth
Many cooks save nine going in through one ear and out the other like water off a duck's back.
Penny wise, pound bankers.
In vino tacet.
Marry in haste, repent till the cows come home.
Red sky in the morning never strikes twice.
Red sky at night - the refinery's alight.
You can't make a leopard change its horses in midstream
Too many cooks break the camel's back.
The way that can be named gathers no moss.
Mens sana in flagante delicto
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If you can't speak ill of the dead, don't say anything at all.
A billion a day keeps bank failure away.
Before you criticise someone, carry a big stick. I am terrible at this. It took me two days to come up with that.
Always have more balls than you can juggle, else what's a heaven for?
Hell hath no fury like a cat on a hot tin roof.
Honesty is another man's poison.
A friend in need is a dull boy.
One in the hand is the devil's playground.
The devil finds work for two in the bush - coat!
If you can't stand the heat, don't burn your candle at both ends.
Let him who is without sin cast a clout till May be out.
Don't count your chickens before the cows come home.
Look after the pennies, pound foolish.
Two wrongs do not a summer make.
A nod's as good as a wink to those who will not see.
A Miss is as good as a Mr.
Honesty makes Jack a dull boy.
Never look a gift horse in the bush.
Do not cut off your nose to spite Facebook.
Don't put all your eggs in the bush. (Declaring a "bird" and "bush" cascade)
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him go round the mulberry bush.
Ther are none so blind as two in the bush.
Don't hide your light under a bush.
Mony a bush maks a bushel.
Kill two faint birds with one fair maid.
'ell aff no fury like a bird wot 'as bin scorned
The early bird catches a cold
In the land of the bush, the one-birded man is king.
The early worm catches as catch can.
A hand in the bird is worth two in the bush, declaring probably not original.
A bird in the Strand is worth two in Shepherd's Bush, declaring definitely not original
That's the way the cookie bounces.
Gird up your loins and tie up the loose ends. (attrib: Clive Jenkins)
The apple does not fall far from the greengrocer's stall.
Waste not the broth.
Too many cooks spoil the child.
Least said, soonest ended.
There's many a slip 'twixt D-cup and liposuction.
The early bird catchee monkee.
Make hay while the grass grows under your feet.
Least said, soon parted.
Rain in November, Christmas in December.
You can't make an omelette without breaking wind.
An old favorite, Many are cauld, but few are frozen.
A fool and his money is a friend indeed.
As you sew, so shall you rend.
Don't keep a dog and bite yourself.
Mustard with mutton dressed as lamb.
A miss is as good as a fair maid.
If you can't stand the heat, take a siesta while the sun shines.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and the world laughs at you.
When in Rome, see Naples.
Enough is enough, until you see someone with more.
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, for tomorrow never comes.
People who live in glass houses see eye to eye.
Nothing ventured, nothing to write home about.
See a pin and pick it up and all the day you'll have a pin.
Red sky at night, your house is alight.
Deuit On Mon Dei
All work and no trousers.
Don't put new wine into an old dog.
You can't teach and old dog to cut the mustard.
Everyone is wise after the fat lady sings.
You can't kill two birds with one stone. Use a double-barrelled shotgun.
He who lives by the sword, dies by the gun.
However sharp the knife, it is the hand that cuts.
The grass is always greener when the fat lady sings.
As you sow, so shall the government reap.
It the fly in the woodpile.
He who laughs last is slowest on the uptake.
Don't keep the dog in the ointment.
All you need is love and war.
Better the Devil you know than the Devil who knows you.
Ne'er cast a pig in a poke till May is out.
Easy come
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Of knocking down the applecart.
Let he who is without fire do as the Romans do.
Chacun à son goat.
Don't teach your grandmother new tricks.
Oops. Fortune favours the bold.
You have to be cruel to break the camel's back.
A Rolling Stone may break my bones but where there's muck, there's hope.
A stitch in the eye favours the bold.
A picture paints a thousand ships.
Out of sight the heart grows fonder.
Where there's muck there's coals to Newcastle.
Time flies like knives, but fruit flies like bananas.
Remember, remember the fifth of November
All the rest have thirty one
With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes
This little piggie went "Wee wee wee!" all the way home.
All the rest have thirty one
With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes
This little piggie went "Wee wee wee!" all the way home.
Doctor! There's a fly in my ointment!
Least said, the better.
An apple a day keeps Jack a dull boy.
Every cloud with a silver lining floats like a lead balloon.
Don't burn your bridges before you cross them.
In the country of the blind, people live in glass houses.
There's always more fish in the sea, until one day there aren't.
There's no government like no government.
Beer is the mind-killer.
As one door shuts, another door closes.
There's no place like Rome.
Virtue has many tools, but attention is the handle that fits them all.
Better a crumb in safety than a feast in fear. But a feast in safety is better still.
Enough is as good as it gets.
A miss is as good as a dull boy.
Audience
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A ROLLING STONE GATHERS NO ROSEBUDS
Mieux vaut être riche et en bonne santé que pauvre et malade.
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In the kingdom of the blind, the blindest of all is king.
Treat every day as if it was your first.
Nothing happens three times without having happened twice.
Speech is silver, but action is gold.
There's no fire without smoke.
N'eer cast a clout till you turn the other cheek.
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