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Random Proverbs (x 100)
Live and let live.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
It takes two to make a quarrel.
One hand washes the other.
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
An empty vessel makes much noise.
Handsome is as handsome does.
Bread always falls buttered side down.
Don't cast pearls before swine.
If you can't be good, be careful.
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
Practice what you preach.
Give credit where credit is due.
Better the Devil you know than the Devil you don't.
Let the punishment fit the crime.
Better late than never.
Don't cross a bridge until you come to it.
People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Fair exchange is no robbery.
Jack of all trades, master of none.
Faith will move mountains.
Let not the sun go down on your wrath.
All good things must come to an end.
March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.
In for a penny, in for a pound.
The Devil makes work for idle hands.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Speak as you find.
Love is blind.
Life is just a bowl of cherries.
Physician, heal thyself.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Nothing new under the sun.
There's a time and a place for everything.
Better safe than sorry.
The pen is mightier than sword.
Money doesn't grow on trees.
Blood is thicker than water.
Paddle your own canoe.
First things first.
Virtue is its own reward.
You can't take it with you.
Money makes the world go round.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
Time flies.
There's safety in numbers.
There are plenty more fish in the sea.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.
Even a worm will turn.
What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Any port in a storm.
It's better to wear out, than to rust.
A thing begun is half done.
If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well.
Don't throw good money after bad.
Worrying never did anyone any good.
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
Wonders will never cease.
The leopard does not change his spots.
Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.
Still waters run deep.
Forgive and forget.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
The apple never falls far from the tree.
All the world loves a lover.
An army marches on its stomach.
You can't see the forest for the trees.
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
There but for the grace of God, go I.
Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
The Devil is in the details.
A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.
Cut your coat to suit your cloth.
Don't let the grass grow under your feet.
If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen.
You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb.
There's more than one way to skin a cat.
Don't get mad, get even.
Money isn't everything.
Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.
Don't put the cart before the horse.
Business before pleasure.
Patience is a virtue.
Don't bite off more than you can chew.
Time will tell.
There are none so blind as those, that will not see.
As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it.
A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client.
Make love not war.
Time is money.
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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