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The wages of sin is death.
It never rains but it pours.
One who sups with the devil, should have a long spoon.
Even a worm will turn.
Put your best foot forward.
Big fleas have little fleas upon their back to bite 'em.
Little pitchers have big ears.
Crime doesn't pay.
Knowledge is power.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
An man's home is his castle.
Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.
Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
A bad penny always turns up.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
Don't spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar.
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
One person's trash is another person's treasure.
Life begins at forty.
Let bygones be bygones.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.
If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen.
Let not the sun go down on your wrath.
Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
Money doesn't grow on trees.
All things must pass.
A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.
When the cat's away the mice will play.
Handsome is as handsome does.
One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.
All publicity is good publicity.
Cut your coat to suit your cloth.
Haste makes waste.
While the cat's away, the mice will play.
A stitch in time saves nine.
Make haste slowly.
It's better to give than to receive.
Fight the good fight.
The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
Every dog has its day.
Flattery will get you nowhere.
Different strokes for different folks.
Variety is the spice of life.
If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas.
Don't cross a bridge until you come to it.
A ship in the harbour is safe, but that is not what a ship is for.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Tomorrow never comes.
One half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
One law for the rich and another law for the poor.
If you build it, they will come.
Give credit where credit is due.
Money talks.
Discretion is the better part of valour.
Many are called, but few are chosen.
There are two sides to every question.
Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.
Why keep a dog and bark yourself?
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
Softly, softly, catchee monkey.
A picture paints a thousand words.
Slow and steady wins the race.
Half a loaf is better than none.
Where there's a will, there's a way.
Once a thief, always a thief.
No man is an island.
Don't upset the apple-cart.
Don't bite off more than you can chew.
The leopard does not change his spots.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
Bread always falls buttered side down.
Make hay while the sun shines.
Out of sight, out of mind.
More haste, less speed.
Money is the root of all evil.
It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.
'tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client.
Necessity is the mother of all invention.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.
There but for the grace of God, go I.
Love will find a way.
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
It's never too late to mend.
There's none so blind as those who will not see.
Talk is cheap.
Beauty is only skin deep.
Hope springs eternal.
Revenge is sweet.
Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.
Good talk saves the food.
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
Physician, heal thyself.
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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