Yorkshire born and Yorkshire bred, strong in the arm and weak in the head.

Monday’s child is fair of face, Tuesday’s child is full of grace, Wednesday’s child is full of woe, Thursday’s child has far to go, Friday’s child is loving and giving, Saturday’s child works hard for...

You cannot get a quart into a pint pot.

Brave men lived before Agamemnon.

Power corrupts.

God makes the back to the burden.

Heaven protects children, sailors, and drunken men.

Love makes the world go round.

Fact is stranger than fiction.

There is honour among thieves.

Fight fire with fire.

Man cannot live by bread alone.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

A man is as old as he feels, and a woman as old as she looks.

Robin Hood could brave all weathers but a thaw wind.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

You cannot make an omelet without breaking eggs.

A bully is always a coward.

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.

On the first of March, the crows begin to search.

Horses for courses.

Nothing is certain but the unforeseen.

Feed a cold and starve a fever.

There is no royal road to learning.

He that drinks beer, thinks beer.

Many are called but few are chosen.

Home is home, as the Devil said when he found himself in the Court of Session.

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

See a pin and pick it up, all the day you’ll have good luck; see a pin and let it lie, bad luck you’ll have all day.

Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see.

You don’t get something for nothing.

Catching is before hanging.

Revenge is a dish that can be eaten cold.

One for the mouse, one for the crow, one to rot, one to grow.

Hurry no man’s cattle.

Punctuality is the politeness of princes.

Findings keepings.

There is nothing lost by civility.

One for sorrow; two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth.

No moon, no man.

It is best to be off with the old love before you are on with the new.

May chickens come cheeping.

A sow may whistle, though it has an ill mouth for it.

A bellowing cow soon forgets her calf.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.

Revolutions are not made with rose-water.

Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.

If you don’t make mistakes you don’t make anything.

The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.