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Random Proverbs (x 100)
Enough is enough.
Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
Don't meet troubles half-way.
It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Handsome is as handsome does.
Hard work never did anyone any harm.
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
Pearls of wisdom.
One who sups with the devil, should have a long spoon.
Rome wasn't built in a day.
There's a time and a place for everything.
Accidents will happen.
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Better late than never.
Everyone wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.
Cleanliness is next to godliness.
There's no such thing as bad publicity.
Put your shoulder to the wheel.
Feed a cold and starve a fever.
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer.
You can't win them all.
Two is company, but three's a crowd.
He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.
Money is the root of all evil.
All's well that ends well.
Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves.
All you need is love.
Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Fair exchange is no robbery.
Horses for courses.
Once bitten, twice shy.
Who pays the piper, calls the tune.
Beat swords into ploughshares.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Cold hands, warm heart.
Shrouds have no pockets.
Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.
Out of sight, out of mind.
A rising tide lifts all boats.
All publicity is good publicity.
Persuasion is better than force.
A person is known by the company they keep.
March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.
If the mountain won't come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain.
Cheats never prosper.
There are plenty more fish in the sea.
Don't cross a bridge until you come to it.
To every thing there is a season.
The leopard does not change his spots.
One person's trash is another person's treasure.
The Devil looks after his own.
It ain't over, till it's over.
Forgive and forget.
For everything there is a season.
Discretion is the better part of valour.
You can't judge a book by its cover.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
Don't throw good money after bad.
Don't blow your own trumpet.
It takes two to tango.
There's none so deaf as those who will not hear.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.
You win some, you lose some.
Physician, heal thyself.
Different strokes for different folks.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
Distance lends enchantment to the view.
Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.
It's better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
Crime doesn't pay.
Time flies.
An idle brain is the devil's workshop.
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
Work expands so as to fill the time available.
Worrying never did anyone any good.
Slow but sure.
Another day, another dollar.
Practice makes perfect.
Birds of a feather flock together.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
You can't see the forest for the trees.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
The more the merrier.
Charity covers a multitude of sins.
Hindsight is twenty-twenty.
What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't want.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
East, west, home's best.
It takes a thief to catch a thief .
It's an ill wind that blows no one any good.
Don't put new wine into old bottles.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
You pays your money and you takes your choice.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Moderation in all things.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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