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Random Proverbs (x 100)
Less said, soon mended.
Seeing is believing.
Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
Into every life a little rain must fall.
Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.
You are what you eat.
Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.
You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
Where there is smoke there is fire.
Less is more.
Fish and guests smell after three days.
Many are called, but few are chosen.
To live by the sword is to die by the sword.
You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.
Pride comes before a fall.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.
It's better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
Persuasion is better than force.
Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.
The bigger, the better.
Dead men tell no tales.
Don't wash your dirty linen in public.
Barking dogs seldom bite.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
One man's meat is another man's poison.
Never tell tales out of school.
What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't want.
You can't get blood out of a stone.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Don't leave your manners on the doorstep.
There's none so deaf as those who will not hear.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
You can have too much of a good thing.
Good talk saves the food.
You can't run with the hare, and hunt with the hounds.
Youth is wasted on the young.
It never rains but it pours.
Oil and water don't mix.
Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.
A new broom sweeps clean.
Cross the stream where it is shallowest.
Don't mix business with pleasure.
Christmas comes but once a year.
The bread always falls buttered side down.
Crime doesn't pay.
Don't let the grass grow under your feet.
A good beginning makes a good ending.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
Cowards die many times before their deaths.
When one door shuts, another opens.
Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
As you sow, so you shall reap.
There's safety in numbers.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Don't burn your bridges behind you.
It's the empty can that makes the most noise.
It's always darkest just before the dawn.
A word to the wise is enough.
Nothing succeeds like success.
A little of what you fancy does you good.
It takes one to know one.
The show must go on.
Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.
Life is what you make it.
A cat may look at a king.
Charity covers a multitude of sins.
A rising tide lifts all boats.
Home is where the heart is.
It's an ill wind that blows no one any good.
Fire is a good servant but a bad master.
Better the Devil you know than the Devil you don't.
Waste not, want not.
There is no accounting for tastes.
The more the merrier.
Two is company, but three's a crowd.
A person is known by the company they keep.
Jack of all trades, master of none.
There's one born every minute.
No man can serve two masters.
Give the Devil his due.
The wages of sin is death.
Money makes the world go round.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
A dog is a man's best friend.
Know which side your bread is buttered.
Love of money is the root of all evil.
They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.
Possession is nine points of the law.
Make haste slowly.
An empty vessel makes much noise.
Those who do not learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
A leopard can't change its spots.
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.
Don't cast pearls before swine.
Marriages are made in heaven.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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