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1. _______ people never have any leisure.
Answer: Idle
2. If at _______ you don't succeed, try, try, try again.
Answer: first
3. If each would _______ before his own door, we should have a clean city.
Answer: sweep
4. If 'ifs' and 'ans' were pots and _______, there'd be no work for tinkers!
Answer: pans
5. If it were not for _______, the heart would break.
Answer: hope
6. If one _______ leaps over the ditch, all the rest will follow.
Answer: sheep
7. If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the _______.
Answer: ditch
8. If the _______ fits, wear it.
Answer: cap
9. If there were no _______, we should not enjoy the sun.
Answer: clouds
10. If two men ride on a horse, one must ride _______.
Answer: behind
11. If wishes were _______, beggars would ride.
Answer: horses
12. If you cannot bite, never show your _______.
Answer: teeth
13. If you run after two hares, you will _______ neither.
Answer: catch
14. If you sing before breakfast, you will _______ before night.
Answer: cry
15. If you want a thing well done, do it _______.
Answer: yourself
16. In the country of the _______, the one-eyed man is king.
Answer: blind
17. It is a foolish bird that soils its own _______.
Answer: nest
18. It is a foolish sheep that makes the _______ his confessor.
Answer: wolf
19. It's a long lane that has no _______.
Answer: turning
20. It's a _______ heart that never rejoices.
Answer: sad
21. It is better to _______ than to take.
Answer: give
22. It is easier to pull down than to _______.
Answer: build
23. It is easy to be _______ after the event.
Answer: wise
24. It is _______ that makes the world go round.
Answer: love
25. It is never too _______ to mend.
Answer: late
26. It is no use crying over _______ milk.
Answer: spilt
27. It is too late to lock the _______ when the horse has been stolen.
Answer: stable
28. It is useless to flog a dead _______.
Answer: horse
29. It never _______ but it pours.
Answer: rains
30. It takes _______ to make a quarrel.
Answer: two
31. A Jack of all trades is _______ of none.
Answer: master
32. Jam _______ and jam yesterday -- but never jam today.
Answer: tomorrow
33. Keep something for a _______ day.
Answer: rainy
34. Kill not the _______ that lays the golden eggs.
Answer: goose
35. Idle folk have the least _______.
Answer: leisure
36. If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on _______.
Answer: me
37. If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing _______.
Answer: well
38. If the _______ will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain.
Answer: mountain
39. If you do not _______ it, you may lump it.
Answer: like
40. If you want _______, prepare for war.
Answer: peace
41. Ill _______ comes apace.
Answer: news
42. An ill payer never wants an _______.
Answer: excuse
43. Ill _______ grow apace.
Answer: weeds
44. _______ is the sincerest form of flattery.
Answer: Imitation
45. In a _______ sea, every man is a pilot.
Answer: calm
46. In for a _______, in for a pound.
Answer: penny
47. In peace, prepare for _______.
Answer: war
48. In _______ veritas.
Answer: vino
49. In wine, there is _______.
Answer: truth
50. It is a sad house where the _______ crows louder than the cock.
Answer: hen
51. It's an ill _______ that blows nobody any good.
Answer: wind
52. It is as well to know which way the wind _______.
Answer: blows
53. It is better to wear out than to _______ out.
Answer: rust
54. It's dogged that _______ it.
Answer: does
55. It is easy to _______ the misfortunes of others.
Answer: bear
56. It is good fishing in _______ waters.
Answer: troubled
57. It is ill jesting with edged _______.
Answer: tools
58. It is ill striving against the _______.
Answer: stream
59. It is ill waiting for _______ men's shoes.
Answer: dead
60. It is the _______ that always happens.
Answer: unexpected
61. It needs more skill than I can tell to play the second _______ well.
Answer: fiddle
62. It takes all _______ to make a world.
Answer: sorts
63. It will be all the same a hundred _______ hence.
Answer: years
64. _______ not, that ye be not judged.
Answer: Judge
65. Kind _______ are more than coronets.
Answer: hearts
66. Know your own faults before _______ others for theirs.
Answer: blaming
67. _______ is power.
Answer: Knowledge
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