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Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.
All's fair in love and war.
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
Speak softly and carry a big stick.
It takes all sorts to make a world.
Forgive and forget.
You are never too old to learn.
You can't run with the hare, and hunt with the hounds.
You can't get blood out of a stone.
Still waters run deep.
You can't win them all.
A ship in the harbour is safe, but that is not what a ship is for.
Nothing is certain but death and taxes.
He that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing.
Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.
The Devil makes work for idle hands.
The wages of sin is death.
Good talk saves the food.
It's the singer not the song.
Charity covers a multitude of sins.
It's easy to be wise after the event.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Different strokes for different folks.
Don't put new wine into old bottles.
Fortune favours the brave.
If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen.
Feed a cold and starve a fever.
Knowledge is power.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.
He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.
You are what you eat.
A new broom sweeps clean.
Give someone enough rope and they will hang themself.
What can't be cured must be endured.
To every thing there is a season.
Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
To err is human; to forgive divine.
Horses for courses.
Charity begins at home.
Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.
Time and tide wait for no one.
Work expands so as to fill the time available.
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
It's an ill wind that blows no one any good.
One person's trash is another person's treasure.
Time flies.
You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.
Revenge is sweet.
The longest journey starts with a single step.
Dead men tell no tales.
Let the buyer beware.
Let sleeping dogs lie.
Children should be seen and not heard.
A word to the wise is enough.
Everyone has their price.
Seek and you shall find.
What goes around comes around.
Crime doesn't pay.
Every stick has two ends.
The Devil is in the details.
Learn to walk before you run.
Don't spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar.
East is east, and west is west.
There is no accounting for tastes.
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
Between two stools one falls to the ground.
Haste makes waste.
All the world loves a lover.
The leopard does not change his spots.
The truth will out.
You can't take it with you.
Make love not war.
The best-laid plans go astray.
One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.
Softly, softly, catchee monkey.
Persuasion is better than force.
A cat may look at a king.
Better safe than sorry.
Good things come in small packages.
Nothing succeeds like success.
'tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
Money makes the world go round.
Big fish eat little fish.
Never tell tales out of school.
Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.
You can't always get what you want.
A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.
Birds of a feather flock together.
It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
The pen is mightier than sword.
Always put your best foot forward.
Tomorrow is another day.
Share and share alike.
Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.
There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
There's no such thing as bad publicity.
One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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