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Let the dead bury the dead.
There is one law for the rich and another law for the poor.
One who sups with the devil, should have a long spoon.
Money is the root of all evil.
Ignorance is bliss.
Possession is nine points of the law.
There's no smoke without fire.
A leopard can't change its spots.
You pays your money and you takes your choice.
There is honour among thieves.
Business before pleasure.
Out of sight, out of mind.
It's better to be poor and healthy, than sick and wealthy.
It's always darkest just before the dawn.
Hindsight is twenty-twenty.
Once a thief, always a thief.
Less is more.
Virtue is its own reward.
All's fair in love and war.
A thing begun is half done.
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Any port in a storm.
It takes two to make a quarrel.
Haste makes waste.
The apple never falls far from the tree.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Where there is smoke there is fire.
Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
He who hesitates is lost.
Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.
It's easy to be wise after the event.
If God had meant us to fly, he'd have given us wings.
Charity covers a multitude of sins.
They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.
The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
Walls have ears.
Don't test the depth of water with both feet.
Children and fools tell the truth.
Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.
Big fish eat little fish.
The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.
Two is company, but three's a crowd.
In the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king.
Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
To live by the sword is to die by the sword.
You are what you eat.
Between two stools one falls to the ground.
Handsome is as handsome does.
More haste, less speed.
The truth will out.
Money makes the world go round.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.
Only the good die young.
If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well.
Blood is thicker than water.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
Empty bags cannot stand upright.
Love makes the world go round.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
History repeats itself.
Knowledge is power.
Needs must when the devil drives.
Keep your chin up.
No man can serve two masters.
The bread always falls buttered side down.
As you sow, so you shall reap.
Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.
The pen is mightier than sword.
A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.
Give the Devil his due.
Birds of a feather flock together.
There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
A rising tide lifts all boats.
It's better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
Speak as you find.
Revenge is sweet.
There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip.
Red sky at night shepherd's delight; red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning.
Don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.
If you play with fire, you will get burnt.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
Life begins at forty.
A miss is as good as a mile.
Enough is as good as a feast.
Blue are the hills that are far away.
First things first.
Every picture tells a story.
Man does not live by bread alone.
You can't make bricks without straw.
You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
Cross the stream where it is shallowest.
Forewarned is forearmed.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Why keep a dog and bark yourself?
The best-laid plans go astray.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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