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Random Proverbs (x 100)
There's safety in numbers.
Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.
You win some, you lose some.
Many are called, but few are chosen.
The exception which proves the rule.
Still waters run deep.
Feed a cold and starve a fever.
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
Grief divided is made lighter.
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
A man is known by his friends.
The Devil looks after his own.
Money is the root of all evil.
Needs must when the devil drives.
Let bygones be bygones.
Knowledge is power.
The apple never falls far from the tree.
Time is money.
Practice what you preach.
Put your shoulder to the wheel.
A problem shared is a problem halved.
A stitch in time saves nine.
You are never too old to learn.
The age of miracles is past.
Let sleeping dogs lie.
Cut your coat to suit your cloth.
You can't judge a book by its cover.
They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.
When one door shuts, another opens.
A place for everything and everything in its place.
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
Fight the good fight.
Those who do not learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.
Faint heart never won fair lady.
It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Cold hands, warm heart.
Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.
Penny wise and pound foolish.
March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb.
You can't take it with you.
The pen is mightier than sword.
All you need is love.
You are what you eat.
Big fleas have little fleas upon their back to bite 'em.
What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.
Tomorrow is another day.
An man's home is his castle.
Talk is cheap.
One good deed deserves another.
Into every life a little rain must fall.
Don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
You can't get blood out of a stone.
If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas.
The end justifies the means.
There but for the grace of God, go I.
An idle brain is the devil's workshop.
There's none so blind as those who will not see.
Nothing new under the sun.
Blue are the hills that are far away.
Don't throw good money after bad.
You can't fit a round peg in a square hole.
Good things come in small packages.
Fortune favours the brave.
Don't put the cart before the horse.
Put your best foot forward.
An eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth.
Opposites attract.
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
Let the punishment fit the crime.
Softly, softly, catchee monkey.
One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.
Between two stools one falls to the ground.
A bad penny always turns up.
Easy come, easy go.
Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear.
Red sky at night shepherd's delight; red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning.
The best things in life are free.
If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
To err is human; to forgive divine.
A thing begun is half done.
Don't mix business with pleasure.
Wonders will never cease.
A little of what you fancy does you good.
East is east, and west is west.
No rest for the wicked.
'tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
A fish always rots from the head.
One year's seeding makes seven years weeding.
The leopard does not change his spots.
Shrouds have no pockets.
Count your blessings.
Look before you leap.
Empty bags cannot stand upright.
Good fences make good neighbours.
Don't blow your own trumpet.
Work expands so as to fill the time available.
Hope springs eternal.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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