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Random Proverbs (x 100)
Laughter is the best medicine.
Bread always falls buttered side down.
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
If you build it, they will come.
Don't wash your dirty linen in public.
Distance lends enchantment to the view.
One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.
Fine words butter no parsnips.
Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer.
All publicity is good publicity.
There's safety in numbers.
Get out while the getting is good.
Fire is a good servant but a bad master.
For everything there is a season.
Many hands make light work.
Better the Devil you know than the Devil you don't.
When in Rome, do as Romans do.
All things must pass.
Curiosity killed the cat.
The leopard does not change his spots.
Don't meet troubles half-way.
The exception which proves the rule.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
Don't get mad, get even.
Let the buyer beware.
Slow and steady wins the race.
Money isn't everything.
It's better to give than to receive.
East, west, home's best.
Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.
Don't rock the boat.
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
A ship in the harbour is safe, but that is not what a ship is for.
You can't always get what you want.
Marriages are made in heaven.
To the victor go the spoils.
If anything can go wrong, it will.
Pearls of wisdom.
Misery loves company.
Faint heart never won fair lady.
Each to their own.
The apple never falls far from the tree.
Don't throw good money after bad.
Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear.
Every dog has its day.
There's no time like the present.
There's no fool like an old fool.
If the cap fits, wear it.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
It's better to be poor and healthy, than sick and wealthy.
Necessity is the mother of all invention.
Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.
The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.
Fight fire with fire.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Grief divided is made lighter.
From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.
Money talks.
Life's not all beer and skittles.
Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
The wages of sin is death.
April showers bring forth May flowers.
What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
Once bitten, twice shy.
The bigger, the better.
You are never too old to learn.
Fish and guests smell after three days.
You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
A poor worker blames the tools.
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
To err is human; to forgive divine.
Variety is the spice of life.
They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.
You can't see the forest for the trees.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Once a thief, always a thief.
There is one law for the rich and another law for the poor.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
Persuasion is better than force.
It's better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
Softly, softly, catchee monkey.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
A little of what you fancy does you good.
You can't get blood out of a stone.
Don't let the grass grow under your feet.
Hide in plain sight.
Waste not, want not.
Talk is cheap.
Nothing is certain but death and taxes.
A good beginning makes a good ending.
The Devil has all the best tunes.
Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.
No rest for the wicked.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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