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Random Proverbs (x 100)
What goes around comes around.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
Let the buyer beware.
Once bitten, twice shy.
Everyone wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.
Never speak ill of the dead.
Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.
The best things in life are free.
Oil and water don't mix.
Don't put new wine into old bottles.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
There is one law for the rich and another law for the poor.
As you sow, so you shall reap.
It's always darkest just before the dawn.
All things must pass.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
A watched pot never boils.
It goes without saying.
Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.
The bigger, the better.
Money talks.
Into every life a little rain must fall.
Bad news travels fast.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Revenge is sweet.
All's fair in love and war.
Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.
You can't run with the hare, and hunt with the hounds.
Two is company, but three's a crowd.
Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.
The age of miracles is past.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Don't meet troubles half-way.
The Devil makes work for idle hands.
A problem shared is a problem halved.
Enough is as good as a feast.
Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Time and tide wait for no one.
Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Handsome is as handsome does.
He who laughs last, laughs longest.
Good things come in small packages.
To the victor go the spoils.
Appearances can be deceptive.
One hand washes the other.
If the mountain won't come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain.
What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
Make love not war.
Cleanliness is next to godliness.
April showers bring forth May flowers.
If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well.
First come, first served.
Slow but sure.
Make hay while the sun shines.
Get out while the getting is good.
Don't blow your own trumpet.
Do as I say, not as I do.
Jack of all trades, master of none.
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
The customer is always right.
In the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king.
Seek and you shall find.
He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.
People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.
You are what you eat.
A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client.
A little of what you fancy does you good.
To every thing there is a season.
Tomorrow never comes.
If you can't be good, be careful.
Seize the day.
All you need is love.
He that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing.
You can't make bricks without straw.
Crime doesn't pay.
The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.
Nothing succeeds like success.
A cat has nine lives.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Watch the doughnut, not the hole.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
An army marches on its stomach.
Why keep a dog and bark yourself?
The apple never falls far from the tree.
East, west, home's best.
Slow and steady wins the race.
There are none so blind as those, that will not see.
It's best to be on the safe side.
The end justifies the means.
You can't fit a round peg in a square hole.
Tomorrow is another day.
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Good fences make good neighbours.
Wonders will never cease.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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