Enough is as good as a feast.

No smoke without fire.

Murder will out.

What must be, must be.

A guilty conscience needs no accuser.

The more you get the more you want.

The pitcher will go to the well once too often.

Every man for himself.

Nothing comes of nothing.

Never is a long time.

What you spend, you have.

The cowl does not make the monk.

The nearer the church, the farther from God.

When the wine is in, the wit is out.

Everything has an end.

Patience is a virtue.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

The dog returns to it’s vomit.

Art is long and life is short.

The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat.

While the grass grows, the steed starves.

Great oaks from little acorns grow.

Practise what you preach.

Silence means consent.

Everyone stretches his legs according to the length of his coverlet.

Ask a silly question and you get a silly answer.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

Be what you would seem to be.

It is better to give than to receive.

Pride goes before a fall.

Soon ripe, soon rotten.

Fortune favours the brave.

The rotten apple injures its neighbour.

Far-fetched and dear-bought is good for ladies.

A good beginning makes a good ending.

It is merry in hall when beards wag all.

A short horse is soon curried.

Between two stools one falls to the ground.

He who sups with the Devil should have a long spoon.

After a storm comes a calm.

A fool may give a wise man counsel.

Light come, light go.

Look before you leap.

So many men, so many opinions.

Of two evils choose the less.

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

East to live, not live to eat.

God never sends mouths but He sends meat.

Nothing venture, nothing have.

Manners maketh man.