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March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb.
Who pays the piper, calls the tune.
All things must pass.
To err is human; to forgive divine.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Never speak ill of the dead.
Out of sight, out of mind.
Time and tide wait for no one.
Manners maketh the man.
There are plenty more fish in the sea.
Don't upset the apple-cart.
Cheats never prosper.
Early to bed and early to rise, makes one healthy, wealthy and wise.
Red sky at night shepherd's delight; red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning.
Another day, another dollar.
Youth is wasted on the young.
There are none so blind as those, that will not see.
A house is not a home.
Time is money.
Fight fire with fire.
Know which side your bread is buttered.
Time will tell.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Still waters run deep.
Crime doesn't pay.
A golden key can open any door.
Jack of all trades, master of none.
Charity covers a multitude of sins.
Business before pleasure.
Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
Keep your powder dry.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.
It's easy to be wise after the event.
Let the dead bury the dead.
The best-laid plans go astray.
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
A poor worker blames the tools.
If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers.
For everything there is a season.
Set a thief to catch a thief.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
There's no place like home.
It's better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
Bread always falls buttered side down.
Softly, softly, catchee monkey.
Adversity and loss make a man wise.
Never go to bed on an argument.
Paddle your own canoe.
Enough is as good as a feast.
Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.
No man can serve two masters.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
It's an ill wind that blows no one any good.
If at first you don't succeed try, try and try again.
A watched pot never boils.
Waste not, want not.
In the midst of life we are in death.
Practice makes perfect.
Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.
You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family.
Different strokes for different folks.
Love makes the world go round.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
Silence construes consent.
Haste makes waste.
Time flies.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.
Stupid is as stupid does.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
If you play with fire, you will get burnt.
Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
If God had meant us to fly, he'd have given us wings.
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Good things come in small packages.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Don't cross a bridge until you come to it.
Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.
Wonders will never cease.
Don't mix business with pleasure.
It's better to wear out, than to rust.
Don't spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
A miss is as good as a mile.
There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
Children and fools tell the truth.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Let bygones be bygones.
A good beginning makes a good ending.
Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen.
Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.
God helps those who help themselves.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
Discretion is the better part of valour.
Faint heart never won fair lady.
Don't get mad, get even.
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Don't bite off more than you can chew.
Don't blow your own trumpet.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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