Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know.

If ifs and ands were pots and pans, there’d be no work for tinkers’ hands.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.

Speech is silver, but silence is golden.

A willful man must have his way.

A whistling woman and a crowing hen are neither fit for God nor men.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.

Hard cases make bad law.

The first duty of a soldier is obedience.

Everybody love a lord.

There are more ways of killing a dog than choking it with butter.

England’s difficulty is Ireland’s opportunity.

Long foretold, long last; short notice, soon past.

Beware of an oak, it draws the stroke; avoid an ash, it counts the flash; creep under the thorn, it can save you from harm.

It is not work that kills, but worry.

Out of the mouths of babes.

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.