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Random Proverbs (x 100)
Seek and you shall find.
Money makes the world go round.
What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.
It's best to be on the safe side.
The leopard does not change his spots.
Silence is golden.
Distance lends enchantment to the view.
There's no smoke without fire.
Paddle your own canoe.
The age of miracles is past.
It's better to be poor and healthy, than sick and wealthy.
Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.
All publicity is good publicity.
Love makes the world go round.
It goes without saying.
The best-laid plans go astray.
Let well alone.
Half a loaf is better than none.
One good deed deserves another.
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
Time is a great healer.
In the midst of life we are in death.
The more the merrier.
Don't let the bastards grind you down.
Needs must when the devil drives.
What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't want.
Like father, like son.
Money is the root of all evil.
Ask no questions and hear no lies.
In the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Slow but sure.
No rest for the wicked.
There is honour among thieves.
Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Fortune favours the brave.
Don't put new wine into old bottles.
Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.
Why keep a dog and bark yourself?
It's better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
Blue are the hills that are far away.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Time and tide wait for no one.
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
Each to their own.
You can't run with the hare, and hunt with the hounds.
A cat may look at a king.
Hindsight is twenty-twenty.
Fair exchange is no robbery.
A problem shared is a problem halved.
Set a thief to catch a thief.
One hand washes the other.
Live and learn.
Better the Devil you know than the Devil you don't.
Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
All that glitters is not gold.
Moderation in all things.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.
A watched pot never boils.
Slow and steady wins the race.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Into every life a little rain must fall.
Softly, softly, catchee monkey.
People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Don't blow your own trumpet.
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Life's not all beer and skittles.
Barking dogs seldom bite.
Know which side your bread is buttered.
Nature abhors a vacuum.
If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers.
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
A leopard can't change its spots.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Fight fire with fire.
It's better to give than to receive.
It's always darkest just before the dawn.
It takes all sorts to make a world.
March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
In for a penny, in for a pound.
Don't let the grass grow under your feet.
Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.
Finders keepers, losers weepers.
Crime doesn't pay.
Good fences make good neighbours.
Pearls of wisdom.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
East, west, home's best.
Still waters run deep.
The early bird gets the worm.
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
One half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
Life begins at forty.
What goes around comes around.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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