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Random Proverbs (x 100)
Make haste slowly.
Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.
Money is the root of all evil.
March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.
To live by the sword is to die by the sword.
You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family.
It's never too late to mend.
Barking dogs seldom bite.
You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.
One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.
A fish always rots from the head.
The age of miracles is past.
Time flies.
The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.
Where there is smoke there is fire.
You can't take it with you.
Another day, another dollar.
Wonders will never cease.
Bad news travels fast.
Grief divided is made lighter.
Nature abhors a vacuum.
Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Let the punishment fit the crime.
Love is blind.
Business before pleasure.
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
Needs must when the devil drives.
It's no use shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.
Misery loves company.
Rain before seven, fine before eleven.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Let the buyer beware.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
There's none so blind as those who will not see.
You are never too old to learn.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Put your shoulder to the wheel.
A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.
Big fleas have little fleas upon their back to bite 'em.
Physician, heal thyself.
Love makes the world go round.
A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client.
Pride comes before a fall.
Still waters run deep.
You reap what you sow.
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
One who sups with the devil, should have a long spoon.
It's always darkest just before the dawn.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
An eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth.
Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
There's an exception to every rule.
Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.
What can't be cured must be endured.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Virtue is its own reward.
Haste makes waste.
Don't cross a bridge until you come to it.
When the cat's away the mice will play.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it.
A poor worker blames the tools.
You can't run with the hare, and hunt with the hounds.
Tomorrow is another day.
Live and let live.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
Live and learn.
Even a worm will turn.
What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.
There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip.
What goes up must come down.
Seize the day.
The Devil makes work for idle hands.
Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.
One hand washes the other.
Curiosity killed the cat.
There's more than one way to skin a cat.
Fine words butter no parsnips.
Horses for courses.
A little of what you fancy does you good.
Ask no questions and hear no lies.
You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
Make love not war.
Speak as you find.
It takes two to tango.
It's better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
Always put your best foot forward.
Go the extra mile.
One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.
Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
It's best to be on the safe side.
Let bygones be bygones.
All that glitters is not gold.
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
Don't mix business with pleasure.
Home is where the heart is.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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