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The Devil is in the details.
Each to their own.
The early bird gets the worm.
Moderation in all things.
Empty bags cannot stand upright.
Hope springs eternal.
The best is the enemy of the good.
No man can serve two masters.
Crime doesn't pay.
Finders keepers, losers weepers.
Where there's a will, there's a way.
Blood is thicker than water.
Don't throw good money after bad.
Time is a great healer.
Love is blind.
Distance lends enchantment to the view.
Let the dead bury the dead.
The bread always falls buttered side down.
Strike while the iron is hot.
It takes two to tango.
Only the good die young.
In the midst of life we are in death.
You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
It takes all sorts to make a world.
There's no such thing as bad publicity.
Let the buyer beware.
You can't fit a round peg in a square hole.
Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.
Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.
One swallow does not a summer make.
If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen.
Time is money.
What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
Revenge is sweet.
Persuasion is better than force.
Nine tailors make a man.
Beware the Ides of March.
Bad money drives out good.
Look before you leap.
Grief divided is made lighter.
Nothing succeeds like success.
A word to the wise is enough.
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
Don't bite off more than you can chew.
He who laughs last, laughs longest.
Hard work never did anyone any harm.
Marriages are made in heaven.
It takes a thief to catch a thief .
There's no smoke without fire.
All publicity is good publicity.
Many hands make light work.
Let sleeping dogs lie.
You can't always get what you want.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
Any port in a storm.
The bigger, the better.
Don't cross a bridge until you come to it.
'tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
Every dog has its day.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
Fortune favours the brave.
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Slow but sure.
Everyone wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.
You can have too much of a good thing.
Like father, like son.
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
A fish always rots from the head.
Time flies.
Know which side your bread is buttered.
It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
All good things must come to an end.
Hindsight is twenty-twenty.
Into every life a little rain must fall.
It's all grist to the mill.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
All's well that ends well.
Tomorrow never comes.
There's one born every minute.
Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.
Less said, soon mended.
The Devil makes work for idle hands.
Feed a cold and starve a fever.
Set a thief to catch a thief.
It never rains but it pours.
Might is right.
What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client.
Keep your chin up.
You can't make bricks without straw.
Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.
There is no accounting for tastes.
A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.
Don't let the grass grow under your feet.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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