Straws tell which way the wind blows.

What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

Fools build houses and wise men live in them.

Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape.

Stone-dead hath no fellow.

Devil take the hindmost.

The buyer has need of a hundred eyes, the seller of but one.

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

Boys will be boys. Girls will be girls.

Help you to salt, help you to sorrow.

Money talks.

There’s no great loss without some gain.

The king can do no wrong.

The last drop makes the cup run over.

Easy come, easy go.

It is never too late to learn.

Pity is akin to love.

Where there’s a will there’s a way.

Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear.

When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window.

The company makes the feast.

Give a man rope enough and he will hang himself

Live and learn.

A stream cannot rise above its source.

Everyone speaks well of the bridge which carries him over.

The early man never borrows from the late man.

Charity covers a multitude of sins.

Honey catches more flies than vinegar.

More people know Tom Fool than Tom Fool knows.

Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.

Little leaks sink the ship.

The longest way round is the shortest way home.

Empty sacks will never stand upright.

It’s ill speaking between a full man and a fasting.

Please your eye and plague your heart.

Where there’s muck there’s brass.

There is reason in the roasting of eggs.

When the cat’s away, the mice will play.

The devil’s children have the devil’s luck.

Go abroad and you’ll hear news from home.

Live and let live.

Sue a beggar and catch a louse.

Experience is the father of wisdom.

The exception proves the rule.

Circumstances alter cases.

A hungry man is an angry man.

Nothing should be done in haste but gripping a flea.

Thrift is a great revenue.

The mother of mischief is no bigger than a midge’s wing.

The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.