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Random Proverbs (x 100)
The more the merrier.
Great minds think alike.
What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't want.
Rome wasn't built in a day.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Attack is the best form of defence.
Life's not all beer and skittles.
Man does not live by bread alone.
Discretion is the better part of valour.
A picture paints a thousand words.
Penny wise and pound foolish.
Time is a great healer.
There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip.
You can't make bricks without straw.
No news is good news.
Crime doesn't pay.
Two is company, but three's a crowd.
There is honour among thieves.
You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.
The bread always falls buttered side down.
Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.
The age of miracles is past.
Truth will out.
A little of what you fancy does you good.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family.
There's one born every minute.
Youth is wasted on the young.
Dead men tell no tales.
If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well.
You can't win them all.
All roads lead to Rome.
Enough is as good as a feast.
Nothing succeeds like success.
You can't see the forest for the trees.
The best things in life are free.
Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
Rain before seven, fine before eleven.
Manners maketh the man.
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.
Don't spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar.
Love makes the world go round.
There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.
Patience is a virtue.
Put your shoulder to the wheel.
Out of sight, out of mind.
Money isn't everything.
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
In the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king.
Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.
Softly, softly, catchee monkey.
All you need is love.
One good deed deserves another.
Don't throw good money after bad.
Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.
Don't cast pearls before swine.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.
Nature abhors a vacuum.
The exception which proves the rule.
An eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
Who pays the piper, calls the tune.
An idle brain is the devil's workshop.
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.
You can't take it with you.
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
The bottom line is the bottom line.
Misery loves company.
Money makes the world go round.
A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse.
Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.
The wages of sin is death.
Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.
He who hesitates is lost.
If you play with fire, you will get burnt.
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
Silence construes consent.
Into every life a little rain must fall.
Fortune favours the brave.
Every stick has two ends.
Don't rock the boat.
People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Hide in plain sight.
Don't put new wine into old bottles.
You can't run with the hare, and hunt with the hounds.
Why keep a dog and bark yourself?
One who sups with the devil, should have a long spoon.
Make love not war.
When one door shuts, another opens.
First come, first served.
Time is money.
Keep your powder dry.
Big fleas have little fleas upon their back to bite 'em.
There but for the grace of God, go I.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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