Dirty water will quench fire.

Cowards may die many times before their deaths.

If you run after two hares you will catch neither.

Never tell tales out of school.

Spare well and have to spend.

You cannot have your cake and eat it.

Truth lies at the bottom of a well.

All things come to those who wait.

It’s ill waiting for dead men’s shoes.

Even a worm will turn.

Let them laugh that win.

One story is good till another is told.

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.

The end crowns the work.

An ape’s an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet.

A golden key can open any door.

Marriages are made in heaven.

Revenge is sweet.

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.

An Englishman’s word is his bond.

Cut your coat according to your cloth.

If you want peace, you must prepare for war.

Never too old to learn.

A still tongue makes a wise head.

You cannot lose what you never had.

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

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.

Think first and speak afterwards.

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

The more you stir it the worse it stinks.

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.

When one door shuts, another opens.

One hand washes the other.

The wish is father to the thought.

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.