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Random Proverbs (x 100)
Slow but sure.
Don't cross a bridge until you come to it.
Physician, heal thyself.
As you sow, so you shall reap.
If the mountain won't come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain.
Nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Don't shoot the messenger.
Between two stools one falls to the ground.
Moderation in all things.
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
Don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
Easy come, easy go.
Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.
April showers bring forth May flowers.
Money doesn't grow on trees.
Let bygones be bygones.
Don't wash your dirty linen in public.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Every dog has its day.
You can't make bricks without straw.
Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.
One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
Forgive and forget.
Nature abhors a vacuum.
Crime doesn't pay.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Live and let live.
Flattery will get you nowhere.
Rome wasn't built in a day.
Finders keepers, losers weepers.
Into every life a little rain must fall.
A picture paints a thousand words.
Feed a cold and starve a fever.
What can't be cured must be endured.
One law for the rich and another law for the poor.
Little pitchers have big ears.
Set a thief to catch a thief.
Life's not all beer and skittles.
No rest for the wicked.
It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
History repeats itself.
Life begins at forty.
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
He who laughs last, laughs longest.
Don't get mad, get even.
A fish always rots from the head.
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Practice what you preach.
Two heads are better than one.
It takes two to make a quarrel.
The Devil makes work for idle hands.
Love of money is the root of all evil.
The bottom line is the bottom line.
Birds of a feather flock together.
A miss is as good as a mile.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
Forewarned is forearmed.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
Many are called, but few are chosen.
Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.
First things first.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
The age of miracles is past.
Love makes the world go round.
Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.
What goes up must come down.
When the cat's away the mice will play.
One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas.
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.
You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family.
Once bitten, twice shy.
Better late than never.
An empty vessel makes much noise.
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
Clothes do not make the man.
Let the buyer beware.
If you can't be good, be careful.
If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well.
You reap what you sow.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
A man is known by his friends.
No pain, no gain.
You are what you eat.
Cross the stream where it is shallowest.
People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Don't burn your bridges behind you.
The wages of sin is death.
A place for everything and everything in its place.
It's always darkest just before the dawn.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Make haste slowly.
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
If anything can go wrong, it will.
Good talk saves the food.
One who sups with the devil, should have a long spoon.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Count your blessings.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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