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Beat swords into ploughshares.
Rome wasn't built in a day.
Each to their own.
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
Cold hands, warm heart.
Don't change horses in midstream.
Time will tell.
You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
Man does not live by bread alone.
Even a worm will turn.
Necessity is the mother of all invention.
A bad penny always turns up.
Fall seven times. Stand up eight.
You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.
Strike while the iron is hot.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Wonders will never cease.
There's no place like home.
Faint heart never won fair lady.
It ain't over, till it's over.
Finders keepers, losers weepers.
Go the extra mile.
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
The show must go on.
In the midst of life we are in death.
A little of what you fancy does you good.
If you can't be good, be careful.
Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.
It's no use shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.
Where there is smoke there is fire.
Be careful what you wish for. You might just get it.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
Forgive and forget.
It's better to be poor and healthy, than sick and wealthy.
Like father, like son.
There is no accounting for tastes.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.
You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
While there is life, there is hope.
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
Those who do not learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.
A man is known by his friends.
All the world loves a lover.
Seeing is believing.
Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
There is one law for the rich and another law for the poor.
Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.
Children and fools tell the truth.
Marriages are made in heaven.
Know which side your bread is buttered.
Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.
Many hands make light work.
The bread always falls buttered side down.
There's no fool like an old fool.
The longest journey starts with a single step.
One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.
There but for the grace of God, go I.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.
Seize the day.
Don't let the grass grow under your feet.
Barking dogs seldom bite.
You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family.
Cut your coat to suit your cloth.
If the cap fits, wear it.
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
Cowards die many times before their deaths.
It takes two to make a quarrel.
One half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
Slow but sure.
The end justifies the means.
A dog is a man's best friend.
Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.
Make haste slowly.
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.
The customer is always right.
One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.
An man's home is his castle.
Good things come in small packages.
Youth is wasted on the young.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Haste makes waste.
Enough is as good as a feast.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
A good beginning makes a good ending.
Always put your best foot forward.
Quid pro quo.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
East is east, and west is west.
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
Good talk saves the food.
Don't bite off more than you can chew.
Fight the good fight.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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