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The end justifies the means.
A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse.
What can't be cured must be endured.
One swallow does not a summer make.
Time is a great healer.
More haste, less speed.
If the mountain won't come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain.
Children should be seen and not heard.
Physician, heal thyself.
When one door shuts, another opens.
There's a time and a place for everything.
Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.
Love of money is the root of all evil.
There are two sides to every question.
All roads lead to Rome.
Distance lends enchantment to the view.
Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.
Tomorrow is another day.
Know which side your bread is buttered.
Fall seven times. Stand up eight.
Don't mix business with pleasure.
Let sleeping dogs lie.
Let the dead bury the dead.
Any port in a storm.
The show must go on.
It's best to be on the safe side.
He that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing.
There but for the grace of God, go I.
Rain before seven, fine before eleven.
Cut your coat to suit your cloth.
A good man is hard to find.
Great minds think alike.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
There are plenty more fish in the sea.
A prophet is not recognized in his own land.
He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.
It's better to wear out, than to rust.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
Children and fools tell the truth.
Talk is cheap.
Time and tide wait for no one.
For everything there is a season.
A stitch in time saves nine.
An army marches on its stomach.
When in Rome, do as Romans do.
Big fleas have little fleas upon their back to bite 'em.
There's none so blind as those who will not see.
There is one law for the rich and another law for the poor.
Worrying never did anyone any good.
There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
Speak as you find.
Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
Good things come in small packages.
There's safety in numbers.
It's better to be poor and healthy, than sick and wealthy.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well.
A cat has nine lives.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Give the Devil his due.
An eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth.
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
Where there is smoke there is fire.
Better safe than sorry.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
It goes without saying.
The longest journey starts with a single step.
Money isn't everything.
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Charity covers a multitude of sins.
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Cross the stream where it is shallowest.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
What goes up must come down.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.
Don't put the cart before the horse.
It's no use shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.
Faint heart never won fair lady.
There is honour among thieves.
You can't fit a round peg in a square hole.
Live and learn.
He who laughs last, laughs longest.
Put your best foot forward.
Paddle your own canoe.
Slow but sure.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
God helps those who help themselves.
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.
One half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
Between two stools one falls to the ground.
Misery loves company.
Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.
One law for the rich and another law for the poor.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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