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Random Proverbs (x 100)
Don't burn your bridges behind you.
Seize the day.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Don't let the bastards grind you down.
Accidents will happen.
The best things in life are free.
The bread always falls buttered side down.
The end justifies the means.
For everything there is a season.
Moderation in all things.
You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.
Enough is enough.
More haste, less speed.
He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.
Handsome is as handsome does.
A house is not a home.
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
Cleanliness is next to godliness.
There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.
Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Only the good die young.
It never rains but it pours.
Never give a sucker an even break.
Why keep a dog and bark yourself?
If the mountain won't come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain.
Paddle your own canoe.
Speak as you find.
Don't test the depth of water with both feet.
Finders keepers, losers weepers.
Don't cast pearls before swine.
Don't upset the apple-cart.
If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well.
He who laughs last, laughs longest.
Don't put the cart before the horse.
Rome wasn't built in a day.
Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.
There's no smoke without fire.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.
Ignorance is bliss.
The bottom line is the bottom line.
It's better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
Don't shoot the messenger.
It goes without saying.
Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.
The more the merrier.
Feed a cold and starve a fever.
Keep your powder dry.
Haste makes waste.
It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Fish and guests smell after three days.
Another day, another dollar.
Truth will out.
Home is where the heart is.
Let well alone.
Life begins at forty.
A bad penny always turns up.
The Devil is in the details.
It's easy to be wise after the event.
Cold hands, warm heart.
If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Hard work never did anyone any harm.
The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.
Money isn't everything.
Blood is thicker than water.
It takes two to make a quarrel.
You can't run with the hare, and hunt with the hounds.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Keep your chin up.
The exception which proves the rule.
Don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
There's no such thing as bad publicity.
It's never too late to mend.
Enough is as good as a feast.
People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
There's a time and a place for everything.
A dog is a man's best friend.
The apple never falls far from the tree.
When the cat's away the mice will play.
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
Many hands make light work.
The Devil makes work for idle hands.
Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
Nothing new under the sun.
An idle brain is the devil's workshop.
There is one law for the rich and another law for the poor.
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
There's no place like home.
March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb.
What can't be cured must be endured.
Money makes the world go round.
It's better to give than to receive.
A fish always rots from the head.
All's well that ends well.
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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