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Random Proverbs (x 50)
Don't wash your dirty linen in public.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
Opposites attract.
You are what you eat.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.
The leopard does not change his spots.
Pride comes before a fall.
Any port in a storm.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
It's no use shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.
A miss is as good as a mile.
Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
Don't put the cart before the horse.
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Put your shoulder to the wheel.
It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.
Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.
Charity begins at home.
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
Set a thief to catch a thief.
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
Never tell tales out of school.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Make love not war.
Let the dead bury the dead.
All publicity is good publicity.
Ask no questions and hear no lies.
Speak as you find.
You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family.
Money doesn't grow on trees.
One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
Every stick has two ends.
From the sublime to the ridiculous is only one step.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
Seek and you shall find.
The show must go on.
An eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth.
A person is known by the company they keep.
It's all grist to the mill.
Flattery will get you nowhere.
A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.
Nothing new under the sun.
There's safety in numbers.
Hope springs eternal.
A place for everything and everything in its place.
To err is human; to forgive divine.
First things first.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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