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Everyone has their price.
The Devil makes work for idle hands.
Set a thief to catch a thief.
You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family.
Christmas comes but once a year.
You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.
The leopard does not change his spots.
Good things come to those who wait.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
Misery loves company.
It's no use shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.
It takes one to know one.
Don't rock the boat.
Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.
Don't put new wine into old bottles.
Ignorance is bliss.
A poor worker blames the tools.
One law for the rich and another law for the poor.
Into every life a little rain must fall.
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
Big fleas have little fleas upon their back to bite 'em.
Marriages are made in heaven.
Bad money drives out good.
Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer.
Shrouds have no pockets.
You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
Dead men tell no tales.
As you sow, so you shall reap.
The customer is always right.
Live and learn.
Count your blessings.
It's no use crying over spilt milk.
Distance lends enchantment to the view.
Softly, softly, catchee monkey.
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
Look before you leap.
Hindsight is twenty-twenty.
Speak as you find.
A picture paints a thousand words.
Rain before seven, fine before eleven.
Forewarned is forearmed.
Only the good die young.
While there is life, there is hope.
A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client.
A person is known by the company they keep.
Possession is nine points of the law.
Haste makes waste.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
You can't run with the hare, and hunt with the hounds.
Another day, another dollar.
As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it.
Let not the sun go down on your wrath.
Don't test the depth of water with both feet.
If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Small things amuse small minds.
Be careful what you wish for. You might just get it.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
Work expands so as to fill the time available.
Fire is a good servant but a bad master.
Don't cross a bridge until you come to it.
Life's not all beer and skittles.
Feed a cold and starve a fever.
A house is not a home.
You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Youth is wasted on the young.
You can't make bricks without straw.
Share and share alike.
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
Empty bags cannot stand upright.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Don't let the bastards grind you down.
If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas.
Slow and steady wins the race.
Half a loaf is better than none.
What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
An army marches on its stomach.
Flattery will get you nowhere.
Put your best foot forward.
Everyone wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.
It never rains but it pours.
Seek and you shall find.
Jack of all trades, master of none.
'tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
Once bitten, twice shy.
There's more than one way to skin a cat.
If at first you don't succeed try, try and try again.
Blessed are the peacemakers.
To live by the sword is to die by the sword.
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
Give credit where credit is due.
Don't spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar.
A man is known by his friends.
Never speak ill of the dead.
Hide in plain sight.
Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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