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1. Call a spade a _______.
Answer: spade
2. A cat has _______ lives.
Answer: nine
3. A cat may look at a _______.
Answer: king
4. Catch your _______ before you sell its skin.
Answer: bear
5. Charity begins at _______.
Answer: home
6. The _______ is father of the man.
Answer: child
7. Children should be _______ and not heard.
Answer: seen
8. Christmas comes but once a _______.
Answer: year
9. _______ is next to godliness.
Answer: Cleanliness
10. Clothes do not make the _______.
Answer: man
11. Constant dripping wears away the _______.
Answer: stone
12. A constant guest is never _______.
Answer: welcome
13. Courtesy costs _______.
Answer: nothing
14. _______ die many times before their deaths.
Answer: Cowards
15. Cross the stream where it is _______.
Answer: shallowest
16. Cut your _______ according to your cloth.
Answer: coat
17. Deeds, not _______.
Answer: words
18. The devil finds _______ for idle hands to do.
Answer: work
19. The devil is not so _______ as he is painted.
Answer: black
20. Diamond cut _______.
Answer: diamond
21. Do as I _______, not as I do.
Answer: say
22. Do as most men do, then most men will _______ well of you.
Answer: speak
23. Don't change _______ in mid-stream.
Answer: horses
24. Don't count your _______ before they are hatched.
Answer: chickens
25. Don't cross a _______ till you come to it.
Answer: bridge
26. Don't _______ before you are hurt.
Answer: cry
27. Don't _______ the bough you are standing on.
Answer: cut
28. Don't empty the _______ out with the bath water.
Answer: baby
29. Do not _______ against the pricks.
Answer: kick
30. Don't make a _______ out of a molehill.
Answer: mountain
31. Don't make a _______ for your own back.
Answer: rod
32. Don't make yourself a _______, or the cat will eat you.
Answer: mouse
33. Don't pour out the dirty _______ before you have clean.
Answer: water
34. Do not put all your eggs in the same _______.
Answer: basket
35. Do not put new _______ into old bottles.
Answer: wine
36. Don't put the cart before the _______.
Answer: horse
37. Don't tell tales out of _______.
Answer: school
38. Do not wash your dirty linen in _______.
Answer: public
39. A _______ must be either shut or open.
Answer: door
40. A drowning man will clutch at a _______.
Answer: straw
41. A _______ on a giant's shoulders sees the farther of the two.
Answer: dwarf
42. Call no man _______ till he is dead.
Answer: happy
43. Care killed a _______.
Answer: cat
44. Cast not the _______ stone.
Answer: first
45. Catch not at the _______ and lose the substance.
Answer: shadow
46. Caveat _______.
Answer: emptor
47. Charity covers a multitude of _______.
Answer: sins
48. Circumstances _______ cases.
Answer: alter
49. Coming events cast their _______ before.
Answer: shadows
50. Comparisons are _______.
Answer: odious
51. Conscience does make _______ of us all.
Answer: cowards
52. A contented mind is a perpetual _______.
Answer: feast
53. The course of true _______ never did run smooth.
Answer: love
54. The cowl does not make the _______.
Answer: monk
55. A creaking _______ hangs long.
Answer: gate
56. Curses, like _______, come home to roost.
Answer: chickens
57. Custom makes all things _______.
Answer: easy
58. Custom reconciles us to _______.
Answer: everything
59. The darkest hour is that before the _______.
Answer: dawn
60. Dead men tell no _______.
Answer: tales
61. _______ is the great leveller.
Answer: Death
62. Desires are nourished by _______.
Answer: delays
63. Desperate diseases must have desperate _______.
Answer: remedies
64. The _______ can cite Scripture for his purpose.
Answer: devil
65. The _______ take the hindmost.
Answer: devil
66. Discontent is the first step in _______.
Answer: progress
67. _______ is the better part of valour.
Answer: Discretion
68. Distance lends enchantment to the _______.
Answer: view
69. Do as you would be _______ by.
Answer: done
70. Do not cast your _______ before swine.
Answer: pearls
71. _______ does not eat dog.
Answer: Dog
72. Don't cry stinking _______.
Answer: fish
73. Don't cut off your nose to spite your _______.
Answer: face
74. Do not halloo till you are out of the _______.
Answer: woods
75. Don't have too many irons in the _______.
Answer: fire
76. Don't meet _______ half-way.
Answer: trouble
77. Do not quarrel with your _______ and butter.
Answer: bread
78. Don't ride the _______ horse.
Answer: high
79. Don't _______ to the man at the wheel.
Answer: speak
80. Don't take your _______ to the party.
Answer: harp
81. Don't teach your grandmother to suck _______.
Answer: eggs
82. Do not _______ out your welcome.
Answer: wear
83. Dying is as _______ as living.
Answer: natural
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