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Random Proverbs (x 100)
A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.
There's none so deaf as those who will not hear.
There's a time and a place for everything.
An eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth.
Fight the good fight.
Rome wasn't built in a day.
Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.
Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.
Wonders will never cease.
Pearls of wisdom.
A bad penny always turns up.
Time flies.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
Fair exchange is no robbery.
There is no accounting for tastes.
Live and let live.
If anything can go wrong, it will.
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
Fall seven times. Stand up eight.
Silence is golden.
A word to the wise is enough.
Don't change horses in midstream.
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
The end justifies the means.
Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
One person's trash is another person's treasure.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.
It takes two to tango.
Virtue is its own reward.
Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
There's no smoke without fire.
There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
Give the Devil his due.
There's more than one way to skin a cat.
Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
Good talk saves the food.
It's better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
There's no time like the present.
He who hesitates is lost.
One law for the rich and another law for the poor.
March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.
Why keep a dog and bark yourself?
All the world loves a lover.
Learn to walk before you run.
Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.
Silence construes consent.
A place for everything and everything in its place.
The early bird gets the worm.
An man's home is his castle.
Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear.
Get out while the getting is good.
Little pitchers have big ears.
Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.
Everyone has their price.
It never rains but it pours.
Moderation in all things.
Love will find a way.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Clothes do not make the man.
The best is the enemy of the good.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
You can't make bricks without straw.
You are never too old to learn.
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
Might is right.
There's none so blind as those who will not see.
Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves.
One hand washes the other.
Life's not all beer and skittles.
Beggars can't be choosers.
You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
If you build it, they will come.
Don't meet troubles half-way.
Big fleas have little fleas upon their back to bite 'em.
Faint heart never won fair lady.
Love makes the world go round.
Handsome is as handsome does.
Good fences make good neighbours.
Laughter is the best medicine.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
Bad money drives out good.
Seeing is believing.
It takes a thief to catch a thief .
All you need is love.
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
To err is human; to forgive divine.
History repeats itself.
A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.
Don't spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar.
Actions speak louder than words.
Time is money.
Better the Devil you know than the Devil you don't.
It's no use shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.
Make love not war.
Blood is thicker than water.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
Rain before seven, fine before eleven.
Don't cast pearls before swine.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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