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Random Proverbs (x 100)
Speak as you find.
Different strokes for different folks.
Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.
Tomorrow never comes.
The Devil has all the best tunes.
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
A house is not a home.
Fortune favours the brave.
Don't blow your own trumpet.
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
A golden key can open any door.
Hindsight is twenty-twenty.
He who hesitates is lost.
Where there's a will, there's a way.
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.
The end justifies the means.
First impressions are the most lasting.
What goes up must come down.
Fight the good fight.
Pearls of wisdom.
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
It's better to wear out, than to rust.
Quid pro quo.
One half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
Cross the stream where it is shallowest.
One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
A watched pot never boils.
A word to the wise is enough.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
Many hands make light work.
Honesty is the best policy.
History repeats itself.
You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.
Work expands so as to fill the time available.
Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.
Paddle your own canoe.
Seeing is believing.
There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip.
There but for the grace of God, go I.
Give them an inch and they'll take a mile.
Don't cross a bridge until you come to it.
Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Discretion is the better part of valour.
The best-laid plans go astray.
Oil and water don't mix.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.
It goes without saying.
Put your best foot forward.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
Everyone wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.
Don't let the cat out of the bag.
Possession is nine points of the law.
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
Rain before seven, fine before eleven.
Make hay while the sun shines.
Walls have ears.
Appearances can be deceptive.
The best things in life are free.
Misery loves company.
Jack of all trades, master of none.
Easy come, easy go.
Don't get mad, get even.
It takes one to know one.
There's none so deaf as those who will not hear.
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
Variety is the spice of life.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Money doesn't grow on trees.
What goes around comes around.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
It's better to give than to receive.
Small things amuse small minds.
While there is life, there is hope.
Blood is thicker than water.
Watch the doughnut, not the hole.
Money makes the world go round.
You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.
Marriages are made in heaven.
Let sleeping dogs lie.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Speak softly and carry a big stick.
Don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
You reap what you sow.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
There is one law for the rich and another law for the poor.
Big fleas have little fleas upon their back to bite 'em.
It's better to be poor and healthy, than sick and wealthy.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
A little of what you fancy does you good.
If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well.
Good fences make good neighbours.
Forgive and forget.
Half a loaf is better than none.
Those who do not learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.
East, west, home's best.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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