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Random Proverbs (x 100)
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
Discretion is the better part of valour.
A house is not a home.
There's a time and a place for everything.
Cowards die many times before their deaths.
Time will tell.
Penny wise and pound foolish.
Hope springs eternal.
A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.
All things must pass.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
All that glitters is not gold.
Physician, heal thyself.
Many hands make light work.
It takes a thief to catch a thief .
March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Adversity and loss make a man wise.
Make hay while the sun shines.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
Share and share alike.
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.
The longest journey starts with a single step.
A good man is hard to find.
It's best to be on the safe side.
There are none so blind as those, that will not see.
There's more than one way to skin a cat.
Seek and you shall find.
Dead men tell no tales.
Slow but sure.
The apple never falls far from the tree.
Charity covers a multitude of sins.
Grief divided is made lighter.
The best is the enemy of the good.
One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
If you play with fire, you will get burnt.
The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
Don't let the bastards grind you down.
The age of miracles is past.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Silence is golden.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Nothing new under the sun.
Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.
Work expands so as to fill the time available.
Make love not war.
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
A person is known by the company they keep.
Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.
Money talks.
One man's meat is another man's poison.
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
Big fleas have little fleas upon their back to bite 'em.
Rome wasn't built in a day.
Let bygones be bygones.
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
'tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
Better safe than sorry.
Charity begins at home.
Speak softly and carry a big stick.
Pearls of wisdom.
Don't cross a bridge until you come to it.
In the midst of life we are in death.
Fight the good fight.
Good things come in small packages.
Horses for courses.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Fortune favours the brave.
If you can't be good, be careful.
Beware the Ides of March.
A watched pot never boils.
Forewarned is forearmed.
Only the good die young.
You can't fit a round peg in a square hole.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Fine words butter no parsnips.
Give the Devil his due.
Time is money.
Small things amuse small minds.
Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
Once a thief, always a thief.
Stupid is as stupid does.
There are plenty more fish in the sea.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
It's better to wear out, than to rust.
An man's home is his castle.
Youth is wasted on the young.
One swallow does not a summer make.
There's one born every minute.
Money doesn't grow on trees.
The early bird gets the worm.
What goes up must come down.
It's the singer not the song.
Every picture tells a story.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear.
Misery loves company.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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