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Rome wasn't built in a day.
Blue are the hills that are far away.
Time is a great healer.
There are plenty more fish in the sea.
Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear.
March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb.
There is one law for the rich and another law for the poor.
Cleanliness is next to godliness.
Work expands so as to fill the time available.
All's well that ends well.
If the cap fits, wear it.
The exception which proves the rule.
Everyone has their price.
A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.
A fish always rots from the head.
A dog is a man's best friend.
Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
Money is the root of all evil.
Where there's a will, there's a way.
It's the singer not the song.
A new broom sweeps clean.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Cowards die many times before their deaths.
An man's home is his castle.
It goes without saying.
There's no smoke without fire.
There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
It's no use crying over spilt milk.
A ship in the harbour is safe, but that is not what a ship is for.
A bad penny always turns up.
An army marches on its stomach.
Penny wise and pound foolish.
Silence is golden.
Only the good die young.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
Don't let the cat out of the bag.
Count your blessings.
Hide in plain sight.
There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip.
If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers.
Wonders will never cease.
In the midst of life we are in death.
Better the Devil you know than the Devil you don't.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Red sky at night shepherd's delight; red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning.
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
Life begins at forty.
Don't blow your own trumpet.
Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.
What goes up must come down.
Pride comes before a fall.
Fortune favours the brave.
What can't be cured must be endured.
Between two stools one falls to the ground.
Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
Watch the doughnut, not the hole.
Softly, softly, catchee monkey.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
Faint heart never won fair lady.
The show must go on.
You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
When one door shuts, another opens.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
Crime doesn't pay.
Little pitchers have big ears.
You can't always get what you want.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
Don't upset the apple-cart.
To err is human; to forgive divine.
There but for the grace of God, go I.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Manners maketh the man.
Youth is wasted on the young.
There's none so blind as those who will not see.
Moderation in all things.
April showers bring forth May flowers.
The Devil looks after his own.
Time is money.
The end justifies the means.
Good things come in small packages.
Set a thief to catch a thief.
It takes two to tango.
Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.
Once bitten, twice shy.
Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer.
You can't see the forest for the trees.
No man is an island.
What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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