Better to be envied than pitied.

One man’s loss is another man’s gain.

Every bullet has its billet.

Let well alone.

One swallow does not make a summer.

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

Discretion is the better part of valour.

Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

April showers bring forth May flowers.

As good be an addled egg as an idle bird.

Good seed makes a good crop.

Marry in haste repent at leisure.

Safe bind, safe find.

What you don’t know can’t hurt you.

Never speak ill of the dead.

Where the carcase is, there shall the eagles be gathered together.

A fair exchange is no robbery.

Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies.

It is a poor dog that’s not worth whistling for.

New brooms sweep clean.

Stretch your arm no further than your sleeve will reach.

You cannot lose what you never had.

What is got over the Devil’s back is spent under his belly.

Fingers were made before forks.

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

Every man to his taste.

A liar ought to have a good memory.

Opportunity never knocks twice at any man’s door.

Think first and speak afterwards.

Happy’s the wooing that is not long a-doing.

The more you stir it the worse it stinks.

As a tree falls, so shall it lie.

Better a dinner of herbs than a stalled ox where hate is.

Hawks will not pick out hawks eyes.

Money makes a man.

Second thoughts are best.

When one door shuts, another opens.

One hand washes the other.

The wish is father to the thought.

Fish and guests stink after three days.

Do as I say, not as I do.

It is easier to pull down than to build up.

New lords, new laws.

There goes more to marriage than four bare legs in a bed.

You cannot put an old head on young shoulders.

Where God builds a church, the Devil will build a chapel.

After dinner rest awhile, after supper walk a mile.

All is fish that comes to the net.

Every man to his trade.

Like breeds like.