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Random Proverbs (x 100)
Out of sight, out of mind.
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
As you sow, so you shall reap.
Fair exchange is no robbery.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.
Virtue is its own reward.
Life is what you make it.
Money is the root of all evil.
Might is right.
All that glitters is not gold.
One person's trash is another person's treasure.
A ship in the harbour is safe, but that is not what a ship is for.
A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client.
Barking dogs seldom bite.
A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.
The bread always falls buttered side down.
Speak softly and carry a big stick.
Faint heart never won fair lady.
Learn to walk before you run.
Keep your powder dry.
The longest journey starts with a single step.
People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
Truth will out.
It takes one to know one.
What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
Children and fools tell the truth.
Don't get mad, get even.
Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.
The Devil makes work for idle hands.
Charity begins at home.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Clothes do not make the man.
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
The best things in life are free.
Home is where the heart is.
Don't meet troubles half-way.
Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.
Ask no questions and hear no lies.
You can have too much of a good thing.
Let the dead bury the dead.
Hide in plain sight.
Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
Great minds think alike.
It's better to wear out, than to rust.
Cheats never prosper.
There's more than one way to skin a cat.
It takes a thief to catch a thief .
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Look before you leap.
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
It takes all sorts to make a world.
Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.
Love is blind.
He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Everyone has their price.
Half a loaf is better than none.
Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.
All things must pass.
The best defence is a good offence.
Go the extra mile.
Misery loves company.
Only fools and horses work.
An idle brain is the devil's workshop.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
The best-laid plans go astray.
It's no use shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.
Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
There's one born every minute.
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Failing to plan, is planning to fail.
Any port in a storm.
Walls have ears.
All you need is love.
If at first you don't succeed try, try and try again.
Bad money drives out good.
Time flies.
Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
Love will find a way.
The customer is always right.
Every stick has two ends.
Like father, like son.
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
A place for everything and everything in its place.
Make hay while the sun shines.
The bigger, the better.
A house is not a home.
Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.
A good man is hard to find.
Why keep a dog and bark yourself?
Manners maketh the man.
One law for the rich and another law for the poor.
Fire is a good servant but a bad master.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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