The Improbot app for Android is now available -- Improbot on Google Play.
Random Proverbs (x 100)
Finders keepers, losers weepers.
You can't run with the hare, and hunt with the hounds.
Handsome is as handsome does.
Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.
Practice what you preach.
If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers.
Cut your coat to suit your cloth.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
An eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth.
March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.
More haste, less speed.
A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.
Don't burn your bridges behind you.
Once a thief, always a thief.
Know which side your bread is buttered.
Quid pro quo.
You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
The longest journey starts with a single step.
From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.
Good fences make good neighbours.
He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.
Count your blessings.
It's an ill wind that blows no one any good.
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
Watch the doughnut, not the hole.
Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.
Flattery will get you nowhere.
Like father, like son.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
Don't put new wine into old bottles.
Cleanliness is next to godliness.
Honesty is the best policy.
Don't change horses in midstream.
Love will find a way.
If you build it, they will come.
Talk is cheap.
There is one law for the rich and another law for the poor.
A stitch in time saves nine.
Patience is a virtue.
You can't judge a book by its cover.
When one door shuts, another opens.
It's better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
Many are called, but few are chosen.
Seeing is believing.
Distance lends enchantment to the view.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
Persuasion is better than force.
Walls have ears.
The best defence is a good offence.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Time is money.
Empty bags cannot stand upright.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
The more the merrier.
Attack is the best form of defence.
Great minds think alike.
Into every life a little rain must fall.
Silence construes consent.
Love is blind.
The bottom line is the bottom line.
Don't meet troubles half-way.
Tomorrow never comes.
It's best to be on the safe side.
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.
He who hesitates is lost.
It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.
Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.
If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen.
Possession is nine points of the law.
A cat has nine lives.
Fall seven times. Stand up eight.
An idle brain is the devil's workshop.
Where there's a will, there's a way.
Time flies.
Another day, another dollar.
Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
All you need is love.
Christmas comes but once a year.
Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.
Rain before seven, fine before eleven.
Every dog has its day.
It's all grist to the mill.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Ignorance is bliss.
It ain't over, till it's over.
Get out while the getting is good.
What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.
You can't get blood out of a stone.
Don't throw good money after bad.
It's no use crying over spilt milk.
As you sow, so you shall reap.
What goes up must come down.
To every thing there is a season.
The customer is always right.
Any port in a storm.
Make love not war.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
5102050100500More coming soon! Make suggestions on the Improbot Facebook page.