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Random Proverbs (x 100)
Hindsight is twenty-twenty.
Time flies.
Still waters run deep.
You can have too much of a good thing.
Let the dead bury the dead.
Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.
Enough is as good as a feast.
Time will tell.
Never go to bed on an argument.
Good talk saves the food.
It takes two to make a quarrel.
No man can serve two masters.
No rest for the wicked.
One half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
When one door shuts, another opens.
Cheats never prosper.
All good things come to those that wait.
Money is the root of all evil.
If at first you don't succeed try, try and try again.
Let not the sun go down on your wrath.
Clothes do not make the man.
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Don't let the grass grow under your feet.
Cold hands, warm heart.
Better safe than sorry.
East, west, home's best.
Failing to plan, is planning to fail.
It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.
Children and fools tell the truth.
Business before pleasure.
Talk is cheap.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
A cat has nine lives.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
The more the merrier.
Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.
There are two sides to every question.
Paddle your own canoe.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
A ship in the harbour is safe, but that is not what a ship is for.
There's no time like the present.
The early bird gets the worm.
Little pitchers have big ears.
Better late than never.
Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.
Seek and you shall find.
Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.
Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
Half a loaf is better than none.
The Devil looks after his own.
In the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king.
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Hard work never did anyone any harm.
You are never too old to learn.
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
It's no use crying over spilt milk.
A miss is as good as a mile.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Different strokes for different folks.
Small things amuse small minds.
There's a time and a place for everything.
Virtue is its own reward.
Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Keep your powder dry.
Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.
All publicity is good publicity.
Fight the good fight.
There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
Don't throw good money after bad.
It's never too late to mend.
You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.
One good deed deserves another.
To every thing there is a season.
Crime doesn't pay.
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
You can't always get what you want.
A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse.
Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
Christmas comes but once a year.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Time is a great healer.
One swallow does not a summer make.
Red sky at night shepherd's delight; red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning.
Good things come in small packages.
Youth is wasted on the young.
Every picture tells a story.
You can't see the forest for the trees.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
Possession is nine points of the law.
Don't meet troubles half-way.
Early to bed and early to rise, makes one healthy, wealthy and wise.
Less said, soon mended.
An army marches on its stomach.
When the cat's away the mice will play.
It's better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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