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Random Proverbs (x 100)
It's no use crying over spilt milk.
Keep your chin up.
Appearances can be deceptive.
Make haste slowly.
You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
It's better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
Different strokes for different folks.
You can't fit a round peg in a square hole.
Learn to walk before you run.
Attack is the best form of defence.
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
A little of what you fancy does you good.
The bread always falls buttered side down.
All things must pass.
There's none so blind as those who will not see.
The Devil looks after his own.
If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Life begins at forty.
Blue are the hills that are far away.
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
You can't make bricks without straw.
Never speak ill of the dead.
Every dog has its day.
Physician, heal thyself.
Let the dead bury the dead.
You pays your money and you takes your choice.
Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.
When in Rome, do as Romans do.
Fine words butter no parsnips.
Many hands make light work.
Once a thief, always a thief.
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
If you play with fire, you will get burnt.
There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
The show must go on.
The apple never falls far from the tree.
An army marches on its stomach.
Seize the day.
March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.
It's the singer not the song.
Charity covers a multitude of sins.
Count your blessings.
Practice makes perfect.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
The best is the enemy of the good.
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
What can't be cured must be endured.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Time is money.
Paddle your own canoe.
You win some, you lose some.
Make love not war.
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
Don't cast pearls before swine.
Accidents will happen.
The pen is mightier than sword.
Hide in plain sight.
Don't mix business with pleasure.
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
You can't run with the hare, and hunt with the hounds.
Ask no questions and hear no lies.
You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.
A dog is a man's best friend.
All's well that ends well.
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.
Once bitten, twice shy.
Talk is cheap.
Life is just a bowl of cherries.
Necessity is the mother of all invention.
Good talk saves the food.
Fight the good fight.
Nothing new under the sun.
You can have too much of a good thing.
Always put your best foot forward.
Don't put the cart before the horse.
It takes one to know one.
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
Don't rock the boat.
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Time is a great healer.
Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.
Virtue is its own reward.
Small things amuse small minds.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
One hand washes the other.
One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
Love is blind.
Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.
Oil and water don't mix.
The best things in life are free.
He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.
You can't take it with you.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
Bad money drives out good.
What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't want.
Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.
No news is good news.
Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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