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Two is company, but three's a crowd.
Less said, soon mended.
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
Accidents will happen.
Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.
Be careful what you wish for. You might just get it.
Attack is the best form of defence.
You can have too much of a good thing.
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
Live and let live.
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
It takes one to know one.
Blue are the hills that are far away.
There are none so blind as those, that will not see.
You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.
Nothing is certain but death and taxes.
One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.
Make love not war.
It's always darkest just before the dawn.
A prophet is not recognized in his own land.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip.
If anything can go wrong, it will.
Beggars can't be choosers.
Softly, softly, catchee monkey.
It takes two to make a quarrel.
The best is the enemy of the good.
Hindsight is twenty-twenty.
People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
It's easy to be wise after the event.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
Another day, another dollar.
All you need is love.
Who pays the piper, calls the tune.
A leopard can't change its spots.
Life's not all beer and skittles.
The bigger, the better.
Forewarned is forearmed.
Fight the good fight.
A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.
A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.
Penny wise and pound foolish.
Nature abhors a vacuum.
'tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
If you can't be good, be careful.
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
Laughter is the best medicine.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Look before you leap.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.
Make haste slowly.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family.
Needs must when the devil drives.
It takes two to tango.
Cut your coat to suit your cloth.
While there is life, there is hope.
You can't judge a book by its cover.
Big fish eat little fish.
One man's meat is another man's poison.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Hard work never did anyone any harm.
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
In for a penny, in for a pound.
The pen is mightier than sword.
Silence construes consent.
Cheats never prosper.
Don't meet troubles half-way.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Tomorrow never comes.
If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well.
Where there is smoke there is fire.
It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer.
Physician, heal thyself.
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Empty bags cannot stand upright.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Love will find a way.
Distance lends enchantment to the view.
Time is a great healer.
Money talks.
Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves.
March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.
Early to bed and early to rise, makes one healthy, wealthy and wise.
Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
The more the merrier.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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