The Improbot app for Android is now available -- Improbot on Google Play.
Random Proverbs (x 100)
Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.
Know which side your bread is buttered.
Love will find a way.
Make haste slowly.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Discretion is the better part of valour.
All that glitters is not gold.
The customer is always right.
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
You can't make bricks without straw.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.
A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.
There's one born every minute.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Virtue is its own reward.
There is honour among thieves.
Fall seven times. Stand up eight.
It takes two to make a quarrel.
Talk is cheap.
A rising tide lifts all boats.
He that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing.
Pride comes before a fall.
No news is good news.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Clothes do not make the man.
Love makes the world go round.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Man does not live by bread alone.
For everything there is a season.
Those who do not learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.
Honesty is the best policy.
What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't want.
Physician, heal thyself.
If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well.
If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers.
Life is just a bowl of cherries.
It's always darkest just before the dawn.
Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.
Two heads are better than one.
It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Give the Devil his due.
Time is money.
Cheaters never win and winners never cheat.
You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.
Many are called, but few are chosen.
Everyone is the architect of their own destiny.
Little pitchers have big ears.
Attack is the best form of defence.
One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
A new broom sweeps clean.
Bad news travels fast.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.
Cleanliness is next to godliness.
It's the empty can that makes the most noise.
Get out while the getting is good.
In the midst of life we are in death.
'tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client.
History repeats itself.
Youth is wasted on the young.
There's no time like the present.
Everyone wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.
Good things come in small packages.
There's an exception to every rule.
It takes all sorts to make a world.
A thing begun is half done.
Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.
It's an ill wind that blows no one any good.
Waste not, want not.
There's safety in numbers.
Blue are the hills that are far away.
Tomorrow never comes.
What goes around comes around.
Pearls of wisdom.
Speak as you find.
All good things must come to an end.
Hindsight is twenty-twenty.
Look before you leap.
God helps those who help themselves.
One good deed deserves another.
Horses for courses.
Actions speak louder than words.
Keep your powder dry.
Let the dead bury the dead.
There's more than one way to skin a cat.
An army marches on its stomach.
Learn to walk before you run.
One man's meat is another man's poison.
There are plenty more fish in the sea.
There are two sides to every question.
Silence is golden.
Don't put the cart before the horse.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.
Slow and steady wins the race.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
5102050100500More coming soon! Make suggestions on the Improbot Facebook page.