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Random Proverbs (x 100)
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
If anything can go wrong, it will.
Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer.
Keep your chin up.
Truth will out.
The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
Haste makes waste.
Don't change horses in midstream.
If God had meant us to fly, he'd have given us wings.
Who pays the piper, calls the tune.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Hide in plain sight.
Give them an inch and they'll take a mile.
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
Blue are the hills that are far away.
When in Rome, do as Romans do.
Everyone wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.
Dead men tell no tales.
Don't put the cart before the horse.
Fight the good fight.
Don't rock the boat.
There are none so blind as those, that will not see.
Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.
Don't cross a bridge until you come to it.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Let sleeping dogs lie.
The Devil has all the best tunes.
Rome wasn't built in a day.
It's the singer not the song.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Hope springs eternal.
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
There's no time like the present.
Paddle your own canoe.
You can't always get what you want.
Put your best foot forward.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
The best defence is a good offence.
East is east, and west is west.
Slow but sure.
Silence is golden.
From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.
Don't burn your bridges behind you.
Nature abhors a vacuum.
Work expands so as to fill the time available.
Little pitchers have big ears.
Empty bags cannot stand upright.
Give credit where credit is due.
No pain, no gain.
A house is not a home.
Where there is smoke there is fire.
It takes two to tango.
Adversity and loss make a man wise.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
It's always darkest just before the dawn.
Practice makes perfect.
A cat has nine lives.
Don't throw good money after bad.
There's one born every minute.
All roads lead to Rome.
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
Let the dead bury the dead.
A little of what you fancy does you good.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.
Let well alone.
Another day, another dollar.
Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.
March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb.
There is one law for the rich and another law for the poor.
If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen.
A golden key can open any door.
Bread always falls buttered side down.
Small things amuse small minds.
Appearances can be deceptive.
It takes one to know one.
The more the merrier.
He who laughs last, laughs longest.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
In the midst of life we are in death.
Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.
Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
Oil and water don't mix.
You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.
Discretion is the better part of valour.
Let the buyer beware.
One hand washes the other.
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
All you need is love.
All the world loves a lover.
The end justifies the means.
Each to their own.
A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client.
The best things in life are free.
An man's home is his castle.
Hindsight is twenty-twenty.
Big fish eat little fish.
Don't get mad, get even.
It's all grist to the mill.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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