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Proverbs
short well-known statements contain advice about life in general (mac_t13)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| action | Actions speak louder than words. |
| apple | An apple a day keeps the doctor away. |
| bed | Early to bed, early to rise. Make a man healthy and wise. |
| beggar | Beggars must not be choosers. |
| bird | A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Birds of the same feather flock together. The early bird catches the worm. |
| blood | Blood is thicker than water. |
| broom | New brooms sweep clean. |
| cake | you cannot eat your cake and have it. |
| cat | When the cat is away, the mice will play. |
| charity | Charity begins at home. |
| chicken | Don't count your chickens before they are hatched. |
| cloud | Every cloud has a silver lining. |
| deaf | None so deaf as those who will not hear. |
| dog | Barking dogs seldom bite. Let sleeping dogs lie. |
| eggs | Dont' put all our eggs in one basket. |
| exchange | Fair exchange is no robbery. |
| father | like father, like son. |
| fire | Fire is a good servant but a bad master. There is no smoke without fire. Out of the frying pan into the fire. |
| first | First come, first served. |
| friend | A friend in need is a friend indeed. |
| fruit | Forbidden fruit tastes sweet. |
| haste | More haste, less speed. |
| hay | Make hay while the sun shines. |
| Heads | Two heads are better than one. |
| heart | Absence makes the heart grow fonder. |
| honesty | Honesty is the best policy. |
| hungry | A hungry man is an angry man. |
| invention | Necessity is the mother of invention. |
| late | Better late than never. |
| leak | A small leak will sink a great ship |
| leopard | A leopard does not change its spots. |
| loaf | Half a loaf is better than none. |
| look | Look before you leap. |
| meat | One man's meat is another man's poison. |
| mind | Great minds think alike. Out of sight, out of mind. |
| miss | A miss is as good as a mile. |
| money | A fool and his money are soon parted. |
| needle | Look for a needle in a haystack. |
| news | No news is good news. |
| penny | A penny saved is a penny gained. |
| piper | He who pays the piper, calls the tune. |
| pot | Let not the pot call the kettle black. |
| practice | Practice makes perfect. |
| pride | Pride goes before a fall. |
| rob | Rob Peter to pay Paul. |
| rod | Spare the rod and spoil the child. |
| see | Seeing is believing. |
| shy | Once bitten twice shy. |
| silence | Silence means consent. Speech is silver, silence is golden. |
| slow | Slow and steady wins the race. |
| soup | Too many cooks spoil the soup. |
| stitch | A stitch in time saves nine. |
| stone | A rolling stone gathers no moss. |
| straw | A drowning man will clutch at a straw. The last straw breaks a camel's back. |
| swallow | One swallow does not make a summer. |
| time | Lost time is never found. |
| tool | a bad workman quarrels with his tools. |
| trades | Jack of all trades, master of none. |
| turn | One good turn deserves another. |
| union | Union is strength. |
| vessel | Empty vessels make the most noise. |
| wait | Time and tide wait for no man. |
| water | We never miss the water till the well runs dry. Still waters run deep. |
| well | All's well that ends well. |
| will | Where there's a will there's a way. |
| work | All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. |
| worth | What's worth doing is worth doing well. |
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