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Random Proverbs (x 100)
Put your best foot forward.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
If you can't be good, be careful.
It's better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
If the mountain won't come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain.
The best is the enemy of the good.
Early to bed and early to rise, makes one healthy, wealthy and wise.
Love will find a way.
The end justifies the means.
Forgive and forget.
If the cap fits, wear it.
If anything can go wrong, it will.
Appearances can be deceptive.
Good things come in small packages.
Waste not, want not.
Misery loves company.
All things must pass.
First impressions are the most lasting.
The age of miracles is past.
Keep your powder dry.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Business before pleasure.
He that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing.
It's best to be on the safe side.
A good man is hard to find.
A bad penny always turns up.
A cat has nine lives.
The Devil looks after his own.
Finders keepers, losers weepers.
Don't cross a bridge until you come to it.
Opposites attract.
Marriages are made in heaven.
Distance lends enchantment to the view.
More haste, less speed.
A poor worker blames the tools.
Variety is the spice of life.
Only the good die young.
Fight the good fight.
The apple never falls far from the tree.
Charity covers a multitude of sins.
Good talk saves the food.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.
It takes two to tango.
A picture paints a thousand words.
A miss is as good as a mile.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Let bygones be bygones.
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
You can't unscramble a scrambled egg.
Might is right.
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
A stitch in time saves nine.
Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.
Good things come to those who wait.
Let the punishment fit the crime.
Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.
Once a thief, always a thief.
One who sups with the devil, should have a long spoon.
A problem shared is a problem halved.
You can't judge a book by its cover.
Speak softly and carry a big stick.
Virtue is its own reward.
Attack is the best form of defence.
A new broom sweeps clean.
He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.
Put your shoulder to the wheel.
Do as I say, not as I do.
Empty bags cannot stand upright.
Fine words butter no parsnips.
A fish always rots from the head.
One law for the rich and another law for the poor.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Silence construes consent.
Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.
Tomorrow never comes.
Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Set a thief to catch a thief.
Clothes do not make the man.
All's well that ends well.
It's better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
Life is just a bowl of cherries.
Where there is smoke there is fire.
Don't change horses in midstream.
Cut your coat to suit your cloth.
Once bitten, twice shy.
Time will tell.
Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.
The leopard does not change his spots.
Different strokes for different folks.
He who hesitates is lost.
Needs must when the devil drives.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Pearls of wisdom.
It's the singer not the song.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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