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Random Proverbs (x 100)
If anything can go wrong, it will.
Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear.
The Devil looks after his own.
He who hesitates is lost.
You pays your money and you takes your choice.
A poor worker blames the tools.
Manners maketh the man.
Let the punishment fit the crime.
A person is known by the company they keep.
A house is not a home.
You can't fit a round peg in a square hole.
Talk is cheap.
Money is the root of all evil.
Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
Third time lucky.
Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
Cold hands, warm heart.
Haste makes waste.
There are none so blind as those, that will not see.
A dog is a man's best friend.
The bottom line is the bottom line.
Better late than never.
An eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth.
It takes two to tango.
Don't test the depth of water with both feet.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.
Paddle your own canoe.
Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.
Know which side your bread is buttered.
Put your shoulder to the wheel.
Possession is nine points of the law.
Never speak ill of the dead.
All things must pass.
Let the dead bury the dead.
Don't blow your own trumpet.
There are two sides to every question.
Tomorrow never comes.
March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.
The best is the enemy of the good.
Pride comes before a fall.
A place for everything and everything in its place.
Don't let the bastards grind you down.
Variety is the spice of life.
One who sups with the devil, should have a long spoon.
Little pitchers have big ears.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
April showers bring forth May flowers.
Blessed are the peacemakers.
The exception which proves the rule.
Ask no questions and hear no lies.
If the cap fits, wear it.
Let the buyer beware.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.
Penny wise and pound foolish.
Time and tide wait for no one.
Everyone wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.
Waste not, want not.
Enough is enough.
Give them an inch and they'll take a mile.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Time flies.
Better the Devil you know than the Devil you don't.
Don't bite off more than you can chew.
Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.
A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
There's more than one way to skin a cat.
It's better to be poor and healthy, than sick and wealthy.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.
Another day, another dollar.
Life begins at forty.
Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
Don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
If at first you don't succeed try, try and try again.
Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.
Hindsight is twenty-twenty.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Crime doesn't pay.
Clothes do not make the man.
Keep your powder dry.
Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer.
A miss is as good as a mile.
'tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
Nine tailors make a man.
You can't see the forest for the trees.
The Devil is in the details.
It's all grist to the mill.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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