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Random Proverbs (x 100)
Still waters run deep.
Ignorance is bliss.
First impressions are the most lasting.
It's better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
There are plenty more fish in the sea.
You can't always get what you want.
You can't fit a round peg in a square hole.
Each to their own.
Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
Live and let live.
Faint heart never won fair lady.
Rome wasn't built in a day.
It goes without saying.
Fire is a good servant but a bad master.
Children and fools tell the truth.
Count your blessings.
You win some, you lose some.
Talk is cheap.
Revenge is sweet.
The apple never falls far from the tree.
Many are called, but few are chosen.
Cheats never prosper.
Let the punishment fit the crime.
Money doesn't grow on trees.
No rest for the wicked.
Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.
The exception which proves the rule.
A prophet is not recognized in his own land.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.
Into every life a little rain must fall.
Don't burn your bridges behind you.
Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.
Forewarned is forearmed.
Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
The truth will out.
What can't be cured must be endured.
Physician, heal thyself.
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
A miss is as good as a mile.
The bigger, the better.
A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.
It's always darkest just before the dawn.
Let the dead bury the dead.
God helps those who help themselves.
Don't let the cat out of the bag.
It takes two to tango.
Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
No man is an island.
Manners maketh the man.
A house is not a home.
Out of sight, out of mind.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
If you can't be good, be careful.
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers.
Every dog has its day.
Flattery will get you nowhere.
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas.
Softly, softly, catchee monkey.
Fight the good fight.
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Bad money drives out good.
There's more than one way to skin a cat.
Possession is nine points of the law.
Better the Devil you know than the Devil you don't.
He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.
It takes one to know one.
You can't win them all.
Don't put the cart before the horse.
One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.
Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
While the cat's away, the mice will play.
As you sow, so you shall reap.
Like father, like son.
Don't upset the apple-cart.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Might is right.
Let sleeping dogs lie.
Virtue is its own reward.
If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
No news is good news.
Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
You can have too much of a good thing.
Pride comes before a fall.
Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.
What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
The wages of sin is death.
Don't spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
Every picture tells a story.
Variety is the spice of life.
Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.
It's best to be on the safe side.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
If God had meant us to fly, he'd have given us wings.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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