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A rising tide lifts all boats.
If you play with fire, you will get burnt.
There's no such thing as bad publicity.
Cowards die many times before their deaths.
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
Distance lends enchantment to the view.
One person's trash is another person's treasure.
Two is company, but three's a crowd.
Tomorrow never comes.
A picture paints a thousand words.
Big fleas have little fleas upon their back to bite 'em.
One who sups with the devil, should have a long spoon.
Don't blow your own trumpet.
Curiosity killed the cat.
He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.
Don't change horses in midstream.
There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
Who pays the piper, calls the tune.
Any port in a storm.
One law for the rich and another law for the poor.
Love will find a way.
Let well alone.
Don't get mad, get even.
Blue are the hills that are far away.
Fish and guests smell after three days.
Count your blessings.
It goes without saying.
Know which side your bread is buttered.
Don't cast pearls before swine.
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
Only the good die young.
You can't see the forest for the trees.
The leopard does not change his spots.
Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.
Never speak ill of the dead.
Forgive and forget.
Money talks.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Hope springs eternal.
If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well.
To every thing there is a season.
Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb.
Easy come, easy go.
There's one born every minute.
It takes two to tango.
Set a thief to catch a thief.
Enough is as good as a feast.
It takes a thief to catch a thief.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
A house is not a home.
Good things come in small packages.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
In for a penny, in for a pound.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
The best things in life are free.
There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.
Hindsight is twenty-twenty.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
He who hesitates is lost.
A word to the wise is enough.
You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
Nothing new under the sun.
Better safe than sorry.
It's always darkest just before the dawn.
Fall seven times. Stand up eight.
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
You can't judge a book by its cover.
Don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
To err is human; to forgive divine.
Ask no questions and hear no lies.
April showers bring forth May flowers.
A golden key can open any door.
Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.
As you sow, so you shall reap.
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
Money doesn't grow on trees.
One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Variety is the spice of life.
Fire is a good servant but a bad master.
Waste not, want not.
Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer.
Cut your coat to suit your cloth.
Make haste slowly.
As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it.
Enough is enough.
The best-laid plans go astray.
Stupid is as stupid does.
If God had meant us to fly, he'd have given us wings.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
Beware the Ides of March.
Learn to walk before you run.
All you need is love.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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