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Random Proverbs (x 100)
Beauty is only skin deep.
From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.
Hindsight is twenty-twenty.
An army marches on its stomach.
The exception which proves the rule.
Love will find a way.
Always put your best foot forward.
As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it.
Talk is cheap.
Paddle your own canoe.
Hope springs eternal.
Learn to walk before you run.
Let bygones be bygones.
Why keep a dog and bark yourself?
When the cat's away the mice will play.
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
If God had meant us to fly, he'd have given us wings.
Patience is a virtue.
It's never too late to mend.
Cross the stream where it is shallowest.
It takes two to make a quarrel.
He who hesitates is lost.
You can't run with the hare, and hunt with the hounds.
Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.
Everyone wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.
Time will tell.
It takes two to tango.
Let sleeping dogs lie.
It's better to give than to receive.
There is no accounting for tastes.
A picture paints a thousand words.
Haste makes waste.
Forewarned is forearmed.
Finders keepers, losers weepers.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Do as I say, not as I do.
While there is life, there is hope.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
To every thing there is a season.
Money doesn't grow on trees.
It takes a thief to catch a thief.
Honesty is the best policy.
It's always darkest just before the dawn.
Life is just a bowl of cherries.
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
To live by the sword is to die by the sword.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
There's no time like the present.
You can have too much of a good thing.
The bottom line is the bottom line.
The customer is always right.
Every stick has two ends.
If you play with fire, you will get burnt.
Get out while the getting is good.
Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.
If the cap fits, wear it.
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Don't get mad, get even.
Might is right.
Possession is nine points of the law.
A miss is as good as a mile.
Better the Devil you know than the Devil you don't.
The best things in life are free.
Let the punishment fit the crime.
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
A man is known by his friends.
There are plenty more fish in the sea.
There's an exception to every rule.
Time is a great healer.
Out of sight, out of mind.
Money makes the world go round.
You can't fit a round peg in a square hole.
The bread always falls buttered side down.
You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.
There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip.
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
The more the merrier.
Bad money drives out good.
A person is known by the company they keep.
Don't mix business with pleasure.
Faith will move mountains.
April showers bring forth May flowers.
You can't see the forest for the trees.
Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
Physician, heal thyself.
Every dog has its day.
Empty bags cannot stand upright.
Marriages are made in heaven.
You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
Nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Home is where the heart is.
Who pays the piper, calls the tune.
No man is an island.
Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
Share and share alike.
It's better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
No man can serve two masters.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
Fish and guests smell after three days.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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