The Improbot app for Android is now available -- Improbot on Google Play.
Random Proverbs (x 100)
Why keep a dog and bark yourself?
What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.
Bad news travels fast.
Into every life a little rain must fall.
Fine words butter no parsnips.
No rest for the wicked.
Fall seven times. Stand up eight.
The pen is mightier than sword.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Don't blow your own trumpet.
Don't cast pearls before swine.
Everyone has their price.
All good things come to those that wait.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
Live for today, for tomorrow never comes.
The apple never falls far from the tree.
Cowards die many times before their deaths.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
'tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
Keep your chin up.
All you need is love.
A fish always rots from the head.
Love will find a way.
Flattery will get you nowhere.
Between two stools one falls to the ground.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Fire is a good servant but a bad master.
There's no time like the present.
Clothes do not make the man.
A dog is a man's best friend.
Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.
Small things amuse small minds.
Great minds think alike.
A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse.
The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
Better the Devil you know than the Devil you don't.
An army marches on its stomach.
A problem shared is a problem halved.
Money makes the world go round.
Cold hands, warm heart.
To every thing there is a season.
Count your blessings.
A cat may look at a king.
Third time lucky.
Time will tell.
Bread always falls buttered side down.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Seek and you shall find.
A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.
Ignorance is bliss.
Marriages are made in heaven.
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
Don't let the cat out of the bag.
A word to the wise is enough.
Good things come in small packages.
Go the extra mile.
The Devil makes work for idle hands.
Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
You can't always get what you want.
It takes a thief to catch a thief.
An empty vessel makes much noise.
There are two sides to every question.
Like father, like son.
Tell the truth and shame the Devil.
Live and learn.
Time and tide wait for no one.
Haste makes waste.
A new broom sweeps clean.
Let well alone.
Don't shoot the messenger.
You are what you eat.
Penny wise and pound foolish.
Every picture tells a story.
To err is human; to forgive divine.
Don't put new wine into old bottles.
Faith will move mountains.
You are never too old to learn.
East is east, and west is west.
There but for the grace of God, go I.
Misery loves company.
All the world loves a lover.
The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.
First come, first served.
Where there is smoke there is fire.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Faint heart never won fair lady.
Money is the root of all evil.
A place for everything and everything in its place.
A cat has nine lives.
Money isn't everything.
It's the empty can that makes the most noise.
If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas.
Different strokes for different folks.
As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it.
One good deed deserves another.
Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
Appearances can be deceptive.
Don't spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar.
Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear.
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
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.