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Don't mix business with pleasure.
One who sups with the devil, should have a long spoon.
Never go to bed on an argument.
Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.
It takes a thief to catch a thief .
As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it.
All that glitters is not gold.
March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb.
Little pitchers have big ears.
One swallow does not a summer make.
In the midst of life we are in death.
Faint heart never won fair lady.
Tomorrow is another day.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
It's no use crying over spilt milk.
Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
The best is the enemy of the good.
Finders keepers, losers weepers.
You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Life is what you make it.
Let the punishment fit the crime.
Everyone wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Practice makes perfect.
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
Children should be seen and not heard.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
All good things must come to an end.
Ask no questions and hear no lies.
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
When one door shuts, another opens.
A miss is as good as a mile.
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
Don't put the cart before the horse.
Where there's a will, there's a way.
One man's meat is another man's poison.
Every picture tells a story.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
The leopard does not change his spots.
He who laughs last, laughs longest.
Empty bags cannot stand upright.
It's the singer not the song.
Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
Don't spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar.
You can't always get what you want.
Work expands so as to fill the time available.
History repeats itself.
'tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
The more the merrier.
There is honour among thieves.
If the mountain won't come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain.
Don't change horses in midstream.
Beggars can't be choosers.
A rising tide lifts all boats.
Make love not war.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
Rain before seven, fine before eleven.
The Devil is in the details.
If anything can go wrong, it will.
There but for the grace of God, go I.
A person is known by the company they keep.
Practice what you preach.
What goes up must come down.
The customer is always right.
A place for everything and everything in its place.
A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.
Keep your chin up.
Slow and steady wins the race.
Who pays the piper, calls the tune.
Red sky at night shepherd's delight; red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning.
Enough is enough.
You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family.
Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear.
No rest for the wicked.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
Love is blind.
Another day, another dollar.
He who hesitates is lost.
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.
All's fair in love and war.
A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.
You can't take it with you.
Grief divided is made lighter.
A watched pot never boils.
Christmas comes but once a year.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Slow but sure.
Barking dogs seldom bite.
Rome wasn't built in a day.
A cat may look at a king.
Fight fire with fire.
Live and learn.
To live by the sword is to die by the sword.
What can't be cured must be endured.
Needs must when the devil drives.
Better the Devil you know than the Devil you don't.
Business before pleasure.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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