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Random Proverbs (x 100)
For everything there is a season.
It's never too late to mend.
Seize the day.
Put your shoulder to the wheel.
Speak softly and carry a big stick.
Time is a great healer.
Worrying never did anyone any good.
Little pitchers have big ears.
Live and learn.
Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.
Only the good die young.
More haste, less speed.
Great minds think alike.
Less said, soon mended.
If you build it, they will come.
You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
One who sups with the devil, should have a long spoon.
It ain't over, till it's over.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Rome wasn't built in a day.
Bad money drives out good.
Appearances can be deceptive.
Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.
A house is not a home.
A poor worker blames the tools.
Paddle your own canoe.
What goes around comes around.
Life is just a bowl of cherries.
Faint heart never won fair lady.
Possession is nine points of the law.
The Devil makes work for idle hands.
Nature abhors a vacuum.
Revenge is sweet.
The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.
Different strokes for different folks.
Blood is thicker than water.
Half a loaf is better than none.
Time flies.
When one door shuts, another opens.
Where there's a will, there's a way.
Early to bed and early to rise, makes one healthy, wealthy and wise.
If anything can go wrong, it will.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
Fortune favours the brave.
Enough is as good as a feast.
Cross the stream where it is shallowest.
Enough is enough.
There's none so deaf as those who will not hear.
The customer is always right.
Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.
Shrouds have no pockets.
One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
One person's trash is another person's treasure.
There's more than one way to skin a cat.
It takes a thief to catch a thief .
Truth will out.
The Devil has all the best tunes.
East, west, home's best.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
East is east, and west is west.
The bottom line is the bottom line.
A stitch in time saves nine.
All things must pass.
If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
It's the singer not the song.
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Let the punishment fit the crime.
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.
Nine tailors make a man.
Penny wise and pound foolish.
Don't shoot the messenger.
Slow but sure.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Practice makes perfect.
It's no use shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.
Barking dogs seldom bite.
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Fight fire with fire.
Time will tell.
Do as I say, not as I do.
Know which side your bread is buttered.
Silence construes consent.
Strike while the iron is hot.
An army marches on its stomach.
Nothing succeeds like success.
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
Between two stools one falls to the ground.
Cold hands, warm heart.
Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.
Adversity and loss make a man wise.
Ignorance is bliss.
The more the merrier.
Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
Two is company, but three's a crowd.
Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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