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What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't want.
The more the merrier.
A person is known by the company they keep.
All the world loves a lover.
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.
Life begins at forty.
Go the extra mile.
What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.
The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
Don't throw good money after bad.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Let the punishment fit the crime.
No pain, no gain.
Don't spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar.
Bad news travels fast.
Dead men tell no tales.
In the midst of life we are in death.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.
Beat swords into ploughshares.
Different strokes for different folks.
What goes up must come down.
One good deed deserves another.
To err is human; to forgive divine.
Everyone wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.
Fair exchange is no robbery.
Laughter is the best medicine.
It takes a thief to catch a thief .
Good things come to those who wait.
Love will find a way.
'tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.
Oil and water don't mix.
Enough is as good as a feast.
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
Cut your coat to suit your cloth.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.
One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.
Don't mix business with pleasure.
Faint heart never won fair lady.
You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.
You can't see the forest for the trees.
Never speak ill of the dead.
Feed a cold and starve a fever.
Knowledge is power.
Never give a sucker an even break.
Blessed are the peacemakers.
Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.
Honesty is the best policy.
You win some, you lose some.
Let sleeping dogs lie.
Time is money.
Love is blind.
Nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
All you need is love.
Why keep a dog and bark yourself?
Fire is a good servant but a bad master.
Live and learn.
There's none so blind as those who will not see.
First come, first served.
A dog is a man's best friend.
Put your best foot forward.
An eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth.
It takes one to know one.
Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear.
As you sow, so you shall reap.
Business before pleasure.
A cat may look at a king.
Waste not, want not.
One swallow does not a summer make.
No news is good news.
Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer.
Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.
Enough is enough.
Make love not war.
It's no use shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.
The truth will out.
It's always darkest just before the dawn.
Blue are the hills that are far away.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
If God had meant us to fly, he'd have given us wings.
There are plenty more fish in the sea.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Hide in plain sight.
Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.
Give the Devil his due.
Cheats never prosper.
You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.
Count your blessings.
Failing to plan, is planning to fail.
There's no place like home.
Only fools and horses work.
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
Speak as you find.
Good things come in small packages.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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