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Random Proverbs (x 100)
Everyone wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.
There is no accounting for tastes.
What can't be cured must be endured.
Get out while the getting is good.
All the world loves a lover.
Fight the good fight.
Tell the truth and shame the Devil.
Third time lucky.
Beat swords into ploughshares.
Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.
A place for everything and everything in its place.
Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.
Haste makes waste.
One who sups with the devil, should have a long spoon.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Nine tailors make a man.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Count your blessings.
Money doesn't grow on trees.
What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't want.
A problem shared is a problem halved.
Blood is thicker than water.
Different strokes for different folks.
He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.
Barking dogs seldom bite.
Once a thief, always a thief.
First things first.
Don't put the cart before the horse.
Fire is a good servant but a bad master.
You can have too much of a good thing.
To err is human; to forgive divine.
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer.
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
The bread always falls buttered side down.
Don't meet troubles half-way.
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
When one door shuts, another opens.
They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.
If at first you don't succeed try, try and try again.
Home is where the heart is.
There's none so deaf as those who will not hear.
The Devil is in the details.
What goes up must come down.
Less said, soon mended.
No man is an island.
Give the Devil his due.
A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client.
He who hesitates is lost.
As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it.
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Grief divided is made lighter.
There's no time like the present.
Bread always falls buttered side down.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
All's well that ends well.
Don't let the grass grow under your feet.
A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.
Fight fire with fire.
Beauty is only skin deep.
Everyone has their price.
He that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing.
There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.
Time will tell.
Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Don't upset the apple-cart.
Good talk saves the food.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
While there is life, there is hope.
Cross the stream where it is shallowest.
Life is what you make it.
You pays your money and you takes your choice.
Time is a great healer.
One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.
Money talks.
Every picture tells a story.
Make hay while the sun shines.
One swallow does not a summer make.
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
Great minds think alike.
You win some, you lose some.
Don't put new wine into old bottles.
In the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king.
The customer is always right.
There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip.
It's better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
The best-laid plans go astray.
Any port in a storm.
Don't burn your bridges behind you.
There's none so blind as those who will not see.
A house is not a home.
Penny wise and pound foolish.
East, west, home's best.
You are what you eat.
Let the punishment fit the crime.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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