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It's better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
Nine tailors make a man.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Truth will out.
More haste, less speed.
Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
It's better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
Misery loves company.
Horses for courses.
The more the merrier.
A bad penny always turns up.
A place for everything and everything in its place.
Life is just a bowl of cherries.
What goes up must come down.
You can't win them all.
Don't change horses in midstream.
Love makes the world go round.
A fish always rots from the head.
One swallow does not a summer make.
The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
Love is blind.
Time will tell.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Finders keepers, losers weepers.
Flattery will get you nowhere.
Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
Barking dogs seldom bite.
Why keep a dog and bark yourself?
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Don't meet troubles half-way.
A person is known by the company they keep.
Everyone has their price.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb.
Fire is a good servant but a bad master.
Let bygones be bygones.
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
There is no accounting for tastes.
There is one law for the rich and another law for the poor.
Into every life a little rain must fall.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Silence construes consent.
There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip.
Don't rock the boat.
A watched pot never boils.
If God had meant us to fly, he'd have given us wings.
There's safety in numbers.
One man's meat is another man's poison.
It takes a thief to catch a thief .
Who pays the piper, calls the tune.
All that glitters is not gold.
Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.
What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
Between two stools one falls to the ground.
Accidents will happen.
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
Each to their own.
It's best to be on the safe side.
The truth will out.
You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.
All's fair in love and war.
Don't put the cart before the horse.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Big fleas have little fleas upon their back to bite 'em.
You are never too old to learn.
Go the extra mile.
It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Actions speak louder than words.
Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.
Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.
Jack of all trades, master of none.
Third time lucky.
Faith will move mountains.
Early to bed and early to rise, makes one healthy, wealthy and wise.
A good man is hard to find.
All's well that ends well.
Keep your powder dry.
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Speak softly and carry a big stick.
If anything can go wrong, it will.
You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family.
Practice makes perfect.
One hand washes the other.
Beware the Ides of March.
All things must pass.
Grief divided is made lighter.
Those who do not learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.
Time is money.
Easy come, easy go.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Seeing is believing.
The bread always falls buttered side down.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Live and let live.
Every stick has two ends.
Cut your coat to suit your cloth.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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