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Random Proverbs (x 100)
Keep your chin up.
Rome wasn't built in a day.
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.
Life is just a bowl of cherries.
Home is where the heart is.
It's better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
You win some, you lose some.
Easy come, easy go.
Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
No news is good news.
Time is money.
Don't throw good money after bad.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Discretion is the better part of valour.
All you need is love.
There are none so blind as those, that will not see.
If you play with fire, you will get burnt.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
The apple never falls far from the tree.
Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer.
Learn to walk before you run.
Third time lucky.
It's better to wear out, than to rust.
Don't spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Softly, softly, catchee monkey.
One good deed deserves another.
It takes one to know one.
A new broom sweeps clean.
You can't make bricks without straw.
Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
Fight fire with fire.
If anything can go wrong, it will.
Distance lends enchantment to the view.
Walls have ears.
Adversity and loss make a man wise.
Beggars can't be choosers.
Don't let the grass grow under your feet.
Do as I say, not as I do.
Fire is a good servant but a bad master.
Different strokes for different folks.
Grief divided is made lighter.
You are what you eat.
Don't wash your dirty linen in public.
March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb.
A stitch in time saves nine.
Dead men tell no tales.
It's better to be poor and healthy, than sick and wealthy.
Don't let the cat out of the bag.
Less said, soon mended.
All publicity is good publicity.
Set a thief to catch a thief.
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
Don't mix business with pleasure.
Failing to plan, is planning to fail.
Curiosity killed the cat.
Every picture tells a story.
Don't let the bastards grind you down.
Many are called, but few are chosen.
There's none so deaf as those who will not hear.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Between two stools one falls to the ground.
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Fall seven times. Stand up eight.
A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.
There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Ask no questions and hear no lies.
Cold hands, warm heart.
The bigger, the better.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Half a loaf is better than none.
You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.
It never rains but it pours.
Might is right.
Necessity is the mother of all invention.
One half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
A man is known by his friends.
An eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth.
Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear.
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
Never speak ill of the dead.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Horses for courses.
Paddle your own canoe.
Attack is the best form of defence.
Beware the Ides of March.
Revenge is sweet.
Accidents will happen.
While there is life, there is hope.
Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.
Let the dead bury the dead.
Hope springs eternal.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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