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Random Proverbs (x 100)
Less is more.
Tomorrow is another day.
Wonders will never cease.
Money isn't everything.
There is one law for the rich and another law for the poor.
Ask no questions and hear no lies.
You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.
The longest journey starts with a single step.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Money talks.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
Silence is golden.
Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.
If at first you don't succeed try, try and try again.
Ignorance is bliss.
Every dog has its day.
Cross the stream where it is shallowest.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
When the cat's away the mice will play.
One law for the rich and another law for the poor.
One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.
A house is not a home.
Live and let live.
Nothing new under the sun.
An man's home is his castle.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
All you need is love.
Good things come in small packages.
Beat swords into ploughshares.
No man is an island.
Let sleeping dogs lie.
Keep your chin up.
You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family.
Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.
Speak softly and carry a big stick.
There's more than one way to skin a cat.
It's better to wear out, than to rust.
A place for everything and everything in its place.
Don't let the grass grow under your feet.
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.
A fish always rots from the head.
When one door shuts, another opens.
Like father, like son.
To every thing there is a season.
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it.
Enough is as good as a feast.
Easy come, easy go.
Virtue is its own reward.
Learn to walk before you run.
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Only the good die young.
There are none so blind as those, that will not see.
Life's not all beer and skittles.
Patience is a virtue.
Once a thief, always a thief.
Don't change horses in midstream.
It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Who pays the piper, calls the tune.
Know which side your bread is buttered.
A dog is a man's best friend.
You can't always get what you want.
Bread always falls buttered side down.
Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.
No news is good news.
Where there is smoke there is fire.
Watch the doughnut, not the hole.
He who laughs last, laughs longest.
You win some, you lose some.
It's better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
A prophet is not recognized in his own land.
One good deed deserves another.
You reap what you sow.
Keep your powder dry.
Third time lucky.
Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.
It takes two to make a quarrel.
Fine words butter no parsnips.
The best defence is a good offence.
If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well.
If anything can go wrong, it will.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
It takes a thief to catch a thief.
Great minds think alike.
Into every life a little rain must fall.
Charity begins at home.
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
All things must pass.
A good man is hard to find.
Time is money.
Look before you leap.
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
It's never too late to mend.
Time flies.
He who hesitates is lost.
Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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