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Random Proverbs (x 100)
More haste, less speed.
March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.
God helps those who help themselves.
While there is life, there is hope.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Nature abhors a vacuum.
Give them an inch and they'll take a mile.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Don't test the depth of water with both feet.
Truth will out.
It's always darkest just before the dawn.
One swallow does not a summer make.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Get out while the getting is good.
Hindsight is twenty-twenty.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Where there's a will, there's a way.
Tomorrow is another day.
It's better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
You can't fit a round peg in a square hole.
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
Like father, like son.
Only fools and horses work.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.
One hand washes the other.
It's better to be poor and healthy, than sick and wealthy.
Look before you leap.
It takes one to know one.
A word to the wise is enough.
Money isn't everything.
Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
You can't make bricks without straw.
Fish and guests smell after three days.
From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.
Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
Manners maketh the man.
Rome wasn't built in a day.
One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.
Two heads are better than one.
Keep your chin up.
No man can serve two masters.
The bigger, the better.
Good things come to those who wait.
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.
Money makes the world go round.
The more the merrier.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
Each to their own.
Every stick has two ends.
Beat swords into ploughshares.
One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.
One law for the rich and another law for the poor.
Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.
Haste makes waste.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
No man is an island.
A bad penny always turns up.
Red sky at night shepherd's delight; red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning.
Hard work never did anyone any harm.
The show must go on.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
Put your shoulder to the wheel.
Paddle your own canoe.
It takes all sorts to make a world.
You can't judge a book by its cover.
You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
Oil and water don't mix.
In the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king.
Let the buyer beware.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.
Love will find a way.
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
Children should be seen and not heard.
Let sleeping dogs lie.
Hope springs eternal.
Don't blow your own trumpet.
Love is blind.
What goes around comes around.
Patience is a virtue.
There's a time and a place for everything.
Penny wise and pound foolish.
Big fish eat little fish.
He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.
There is one law for the rich and another law for the poor.
Don't spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar.
It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
One good deed deserves another.
Know which side your bread is buttered.
Moderation in all things.
Everyone wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.
Keep your powder dry.
Don't wash your dirty linen in public.
Grief divided is made lighter.
Still waters run deep.
Forewarned is forearmed.
Do as I say, not as I do.
Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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