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Random Proverbs (x 100)
If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers.
A little of what you fancy does you good.
Virtue is its own reward.
Finders keepers, losers weepers.
There's no fool like an old fool.
Keep your chin up.
If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
The Devil makes work for idle hands.
Good things come to those who wait.
Talk is cheap.
You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Don't mix business with pleasure.
Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
Money isn't everything.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
Physician, heal thyself.
Work expands so as to fill the time available.
You can't get blood out of a stone.
Big fleas have little fleas upon their back to bite 'em.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
Everyone has their price.
Fall seven times. Stand up eight.
Love will find a way.
The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.
It takes two to tango.
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
It's better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
Don't change horses in midstream.
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.
Fight fire with fire.
Enough is enough.
Horses for courses.
Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
A ship in the harbour is safe, but that is not what a ship is for.
Fine words butter no parsnips.
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
Only the good die young.
While there is life, there is hope.
When the cat's away the mice will play.
To err is human; to forgive divine.
Share and share alike.
Forgive and forget.
Might is right.
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
Honesty is the best policy.
Make haste slowly.
Many hands make light work.
What goes around comes around.
There's none so deaf as those who will not hear.
It goes without saying.
Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.
All roads lead to Rome.
Let the punishment fit the crime.
Never go to bed on an argument.
Once a thief, always a thief.
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
A fish always rots from the head.
A picture paints a thousand words.
The Devil is in the details.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.
It's never too late to mend.
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
Knowledge is power.
Charity begins at home.
Variety is the spice of life.
Where there is smoke there is fire.
Rome wasn't built in a day.
There's one born every minute.
Seize the day.
Let the dead bury the dead.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
There's no such thing as bad publicity.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
First things first.
Easy come, easy go.
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Beauty is only skin deep.
All's fair in love and war.
Watch the doughnut, not the hole.
Love makes the world go round.
What can't be cured must be endured.
In for a penny, in for a pound.
Money makes the world go round.
One half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
East, west, home's best.
Clothes do not make the man.
It's better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
Between two stools one falls to the ground.
Seek and you shall find.
Seeing is believing.
Hindsight is twenty-twenty.
Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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