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Random Proverbs (x 100)
Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.
Charity begins at home.
It's better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
Cut your coat to suit your cloth.
Never give a sucker an even break.
What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't want.
Discretion is the better part of valour.
A person is known by the company they keep.
Make haste slowly.
Charity covers a multitude of sins.
Let the dead bury the dead.
Only fools and horses work.
Business before pleasure.
From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
Don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
You can't see the forest for the trees.
Speak as you find.
Clothes do not make the man.
Out of sight, out of mind.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
Life's not all beer and skittles.
A cat may look at a king.
No man is an island.
Let the punishment fit the crime.
Man does not live by bread alone.
Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.
Money talks.
Get out while the getting is good.
Softly, softly, catchee monkey.
'tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
The wages of sin is death.
Early to bed and early to rise, makes one healthy, wealthy and wise.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Less said, soon mended.
Waste not, want not.
Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Hope springs eternal.
Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.
First things first.
You can have too much of a good thing.
Don't let the grass grow under your feet.
In for a penny, in for a pound.
Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.
Look before you leap.
Hard work never did anyone any harm.
Necessity is the mother of all invention.
There's no place like home.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
A good man is hard to find.
One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
Still waters run deep.
Appearances can be deceptive.
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
A miss is as good as a mile.
Fight fire with fire.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Time is a great healer.
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
Pride comes before a fall.
An eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth.
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
Faith will move mountains.
Blessed are the peacemakers.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
There's one born every minute.
A thing begun is half done.
A house is not a home.
Know which side your bread is buttered.
Make hay while the sun shines.
You can't take it with you.
Don't get mad, get even.
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
In the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king.
Never tell tales out of school.
There's an exception to every rule.
A golden key can open any door.
A word to the wise is enough.
Don't cast pearls before swine.
Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
Tomorrow is another day.
Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.
Keep your chin up.
Home is where the heart is.
It takes all sorts to make a world.
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Life begins at forty.
Paddle your own canoe.
Another day, another dollar.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
It's better to be poor and healthy, than sick and wealthy.
It's never too late to mend.
Faint heart never won fair lady.
East, west, home's best.
Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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