The Improbot app for Android is now available -- Improbot on Google Play.
Random Proverbs (x 100)
Good talk saves the food.
An man's home is his castle.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
When in Rome, do as Romans do.
Flattery will get you nowhere.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Time is a great healer.
The pen is mightier than sword.
First things first.
East is east, and west is west.
Make haste slowly.
Tomorrow never comes.
One good deed deserves another.
Nothing succeeds like success.
A fish always rots from the head.
Love is blind.
Talk is cheap.
Actions speak louder than words.
Half a loaf is better than none.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.
Live and learn.
Live and let live.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
You can't get blood out of a stone.
Learn to walk before you run.
Cleanliness is next to godliness.
Jack of all trades, master of none.
Enough is enough.
Nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Don't test the depth of water with both feet.
Two heads are better than one.
If at first you don't succeed try, try and try again.
It's best to be on the safe side.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.
The exception which proves the rule.
Crime doesn't pay.
Don't put new wine into old bottles.
Any port in a storm.
Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
To the victor go the spoils.
Fight fire with fire.
Tomorrow is another day.
Love of money is the root of all evil.
A problem shared is a problem halved.
What goes around comes around.
A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.
Barking dogs seldom bite.
It takes a thief to catch a thief.
The more the merrier.
First impressions are the most lasting.
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
Let bygones be bygones.
Put your best foot forward.
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Silence construes consent.
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
The bigger, the better.
Time and tide wait for no one.
Those who do not learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.
Tell the truth and shame the Devil.
What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.
You can have too much of a good thing.
Life's not all beer and skittles.
Ask no questions and hear no lies.
There's no fool like an old fool.
There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
Attack is the best form of defence.
Finders keepers, losers weepers.
All the world loves a lover.
Dead men tell no tales.
Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
A rising tide lifts all boats.
There but for the grace of God, go I.
It's better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Patience is a virtue.
He that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing.
A poor worker blames the tools.
You can't always get what you want.
There's one born every minute.
Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.
Nothing new under the sun.
You pays your money and you takes your choice.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
Feed a cold and starve a fever.
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.
Wonders will never cease.
The best things in life are free.
One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
Fine words butter no parsnips.
If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers.
Out of sight, out of mind.
Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
5102050100500More coming soon! Make suggestions on the Improbot Facebook page.