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Random Proverbs (x 100)
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
There is one law for the rich and another law for the poor.
Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.
Jack of all trades, master of none.
To live by the sword is to die by the sword.
You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
You can't fit a round peg in a square hole.
Variety is the spice of life.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
Watch the doughnut, not the hole.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
Charity begins at home.
Good things come in small packages.
Nine tailors make a man.
A person is known by the company they keep.
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
Rome wasn't built in a day.
The longest journey starts with a single step.
If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers.
Bad news travels fast.
One man's meat is another man's poison.
Pearls of wisdom.
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
Fight the good fight.
Don't let the cat out of the bag.
Early to bed and early to rise, makes one healthy, wealthy and wise.
If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well.
There's one born every minute.
All roads lead to Rome.
Go the extra mile.
Don't shoot the messenger.
You pays your money and you takes your choice.
Once a thief, always a thief.
Clothes do not make the man.
If the mountain won't come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain.
March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.
Laughter is the best medicine.
When one door shuts, another opens.
Don't bite off more than you can chew.
Every stick has two ends.
Money talks.
You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family.
God helps those who help themselves.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.
Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.
Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Don't throw good money after bad.
Time and tide wait for no one.
Practice makes perfect.
Only the good die young.
Charity covers a multitude of sins.
Speak as you find.
Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
It takes one to know one.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
Marriages are made in heaven.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.
Great minds think alike.
Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.
The exception which proves the rule.
You can have too much of a good thing.
Better the Devil you know than the Devil you don't.
To err is human; to forgive divine.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
Rain before seven, fine before eleven.
What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't want.
If anything can go wrong, it will.
There's no time like the present.
Don't upset the apple-cart.
The wages of sin is death.
Why keep a dog and bark yourself?
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
All the world loves a lover.
Every dog has its day.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
A prophet is not recognized in his own land.
He who laughs last, laughs longest.
All you need is love.
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
Quid pro quo.
Let the buyer beware.
A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client.
Might is right.
Handsome is as handsome does.
You can't always get what you want.
Persuasion is better than force.
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Love is blind.
You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
Nature abhors a vacuum.
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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