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1. Wake not a sleeping _______.
Answer: lion 2. _______ have ears.
Answer: Walls 3. Waste not, _______ not.
Answer: want
4. Water is a boon in the _______, but the drowning man curses it.
Answer: desert 5. A watched _______ never boils.
Answer: pot 6. We live in deeds, not in _______.
Answer: years 7. Wedlock is a _______.
Answer: padlock 8. Well _______ is half done.
Answer: begun 9. What can't be _______ must be endured.
Answer: cured 10. What's _______ cannot be undone.
Answer: done 11. What's sauce for the _______ is sauce for the gander.
Answer: goose 12. What is the good of a sundial in the _______?
Answer: shade 13. What is worth doing is worth doing _______.
Answer: well 14. What will Mrs _______ say?
Answer: Grundy 15. Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also _______.
Answer: reap 16. When all men _______, no man hears.
Answer: speak 17. When children stand _______, they have done some ill.
Answer: still 18. When Greek meets _______, then comes the tug of war.
Answer: Greek 19. When I lent, I had a _______; when I asked, he was unkind.
Answer: friend 20. When in _______, leave out.
Answer: doubt 21. When in Rome, do as the _______ do.
Answer: Romans 22. When one _______ shuts, another opens.
Answer: door 23. When the cat is away, the _______ will play.
Answer: mice 24. Where there is a _______, there is a way.
Answer: will 25. Where there is _______, there is fire.
Answer: smoke 26. While there is _______, there is hope.
Answer: life 27. Who keeps company with the _______ will learn to howl.
Answer: wolf 28. Why keep a _______ and bark yourself?
Answer: dog 29. A _______ lasts but nine days.
Answer: wonder 30. A word is enough to the _______.
Answer: wise 31. A _______ spoken is past recalling.
Answer: word 32. Words cut more than _______.
Answer: swords 33. _______ is worship.
Answer: Work 34. The worst _______ of the cart creaks most.
Answer: wheel 35. You cannot burn the _______ at both ends.
Answer: candle 36. You cannot catch old _______ with chaff.
Answer: birds 37. You cannot have it _______ ways.
Answer: both 38. You cannot have the _______ and eat it too.
Answer: cake 39. You cannot make a _______ walk straight.
Answer: crab 40. You cannot make an omelet without breaking _______.
Answer: eggs 41. You cannot put an old head on young _______.
Answer: shoulders 42. You cannot _______ the cow and drink the milk.
Answer: sell 43. You cannot teach an old dog new _______.
Answer: tricks 44. You may lead a horse to the water, but you cannot make him _______.
Answer: drink 45. You must lose a _______ to catch a trout.
Answer: fly 46. You never know what you can do till you _______.
Answer: try 47. Want is the _______ of industry.
Answer: mother 48. The way to a man's heart is through his _______.
Answer: stomach 49. We are all _______ of opinion.
Answer: slaves 50. We get what we deserve not what we _______.
Answer: desire 51. We soon _______ what we desire.
Answer: believe 52. The _______ goes to the wall.
Answer: weakest 53. What can you expect from a _______ but a grunt?
Answer: hog 54. What _______ little is little esteemed.
Answer: costs 55. What is a workman without his _______?
Answer: tools 56. What is bred in the _______ will never come out of the flesh.
Answer: bone 57. What's yours is _______, and what's mine is my own.
Answer: mine 58. What man has _______, man can do.
Answer: done 59. What may be done at _______ time is done at no time.
Answer: any 60. What _______ be must be.
Answer: must 61. What one _______ on the swings, one makes up on the roundabouts.
Answer: loses 62. What soberness conceals, _______ reveals.
Answer: drunkenness 63. What the eye doesn't see, the _______ doesn't grieve over.
Answer: heart 64. When in _______, do nowt.
Answer: doubt 65. When the wolf comes in at the door, love creeps out of the _______.
Answer: window 66. When the word is out, it _______ to another.
Answer: belongs 67. When _______ fall out, honest men come by their own.
Answer: thieves 68. Where _______ is bliss, it is folly to be wise.
Answer: ignorance 69. Where there's _______, there's brass.
Answer: muck 70. Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the _______.
Answer: pitcher 71. Who _______ to you will chatter of you.
Answer: chatters 72. Who is worse shod than the shoemaker's _______?
Answer: wife 73. Who repairs not his gutters repairs his _______ house.
Answer: whole 74. _______ at first and lose at last.
Answer: Win 75. A wise man is never less _______ than when alone.
Answer: alone 76. Wise men learn by other's _______; fools by their own.
Answer: mistakes 77. The wish is _______ to the thought.
Answer: father 78. The worse _______ now, the better another time.
Answer: luck 79. Worse things happen at _______.
Answer: sea 80. The _______ of a thing is best known by the want of it.
Answer: worth 81. You cannot get a _______ into a pint pot.
Answer: quart 82. You cannot get _______ out of a stone.
Answer: blood 83. You cannot make a _______ purse out of a sow's ear.
Answer: silk 84. You cannot make bricks without _______.
Answer: straw 85. You cannot run with the _______ and hunt with the hounds.
Answer: hare 86. You cannot serve _______ and Mammon.
Answer: God 87. You may know by a handful the whole _______.
Answer: sack 88. You must _______ and bear it.
Answer: grin 89. You scratch my _______ and I'll scratch yours.
Answer: back 90. The _______ will sow their wild oats.
Answer: young 91. Youth will be _______.
Answer: served 92. Young blood must have its _______.
Answer: course 93. Zeal without _______ is a runaway horse.
Answer: knowledge
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