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1. The last _______ makes the cup run over.
Answer: drop
2. The last _______ breaks the camel's back.
Answer: straw
3. Laugh and grow _______.
Answer: fat
4. Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep _______.
Answer: alone
5. Learn to _______ before you run.
Answer: walk
6. Lend your _______ and lose your friend.
Answer: money
7. The _______ cannot change his spots.
Answer: leopard
8. Let bygones be _______.
Answer: bygones
9. Let sleeping _______ lie.
Answer: dogs
10. A _______ is not believed when he tells the truth.
Answer: liar
11. _______ is sweet.
Answer: Life
12. A light purse makes a heavy _______.
Answer: heart
13. Lightly _______, lightly go.
Answer: come
14. Like _______, like son.
Answer: father
15. A lion may come to be beholden to a _______.
Answer: mouse
16. Little by _______ and bit by bit.
Answer: little
17. A little _______ is worth a deal of pity.
Answer: help
18. A little _______ is a dangerous thing.
Answer: learning
19. Little strokes fell great _______.
Answer: oaks
20. Live and _______.
Answer: learn
21. Live and let _______.
Answer: live
22. Live not to _______, but eat to live.
Answer: eat
23. The longest day must have an _______.
Answer: end
24. Look before you _______.
Answer: leap
25. _______ is blind.
Answer: Love
26. Love will find a _______.
Answer: way
27. Make haste _______.
Answer: slowly
28. Make _______ while the sun shines.
Answer: hay
29. Make the best of a _______ job.
Answer: bad
30. A man is known by the _______ he keeps.
Answer: company
31. Man proposes, _______ disposes.
Answer: God
32. Many hands make _______ work.
Answer: light
33. Marriages are made in _______.
Answer: heaven
34. Marriage is a _______.
Answer: lottery
35. Marry in _______, and repent at leisure.
Answer: haste
36. Men are not to be measured in _______.
Answer: inches
37. Men leap over where the hedge is _______.
Answer: lowest
38. Men make houses, women make _______.
Answer: homes
39. Might is _______.
Answer: right
40. Money begets _______.
Answer: money
41. Money is the root of all _______.
Answer: evil
42. Money _______.
Answer: talks
43. More haste, less _______.
Answer: speed
44. More than enough is too _______.
Answer: much
45. Much would have _______.
Answer: more
46. The more you _______, the more you want.
Answer: have
47. The _______ that has but one hole is quickly taken.
Answer: mouse
48. The laborer is worthy of his _______.
Answer: hire
49. Least said, _______ mended.
Answer: soonest
50. Let not the _______ go down on your wrath.
Answer: sun
51. Let not thy left _______ know what thy right hand doeth.
Answer: hand
52. Let not your _______ go wool-gathering.
Answer: wits
53. Let the buyer _______.
Answer: beware
54. Let the cobbler _______ to his last.
Answer: stick
55. Let the _______ wag.
Answer: world
56. Liars should have good _______.
Answer: memories
57. Life is not all _______ and skittles.
Answer: beer
58. Life is short and _______ is swift.
Answer: time
59. Light not a _______ to the sun.
Answer: candle
60. Like _______, like man.
Answer: master
61. Like will to _______.
Answer: like
62. Listeners hear no _______ of themselves.
Answer: good
63. Little and _______ fills the purse.
Answer: often
64. Little pitchers have long _______.
Answer: ears
65. Little things please little _______.
Answer: minds
66. The longest way round is the _______ way home.
Answer: nearest
67. Lookers-on see most of the _______.
Answer: game
68. Love _______ at locksmiths.
Answer: laughs
69. Love me _______, love me long.
Answer: little
70. Love me, love my _______.
Answer: dog
71. The love of money is the root of all _______.
Answer: evil
72. Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your _______.
Answer: fence
73. Make the _______ of a bad bargain.
Answer: best
74. Make yourself all _______ and the flies will devour you.
Answer: honey
75. A man can only die _______.
Answer: once
76. A man is as old as he _______, and a woman as old as she looks.
Answer: feels
77. A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of _______.
Answer: weeds
78. A man without a smiling face must not open a _______.
Answer: shop
79. _______ make the man.
Answer: Manners
80. Many a _______ makes a mickle.
Answer: little
81. Many kiss the hand they wish to _______ off.
Answer: cut
82. Many would be _______ if they had courage enough.
Answer: cowards
83. May God defend me from my _______; I can defend myself from my enemies.
Answer: friends
84. Men are _______ in their own cause.
Answer: blind
85. Men strain at gnats and swallow _______.
Answer: camels
86. A mill cannot grind with the _______ that is past.
Answer: water
87. The mills of God grind _______.
Answer: slowly
88. Misfortunes never come _______.
Answer: singly
89. A miss is as good as a _______.
Answer: mile
90. Moderation in all _______.
Answer: things
91. Money burns a hole in the _______.
Answer: pocket
92. More know Tom Fool than Tom Fool _______.
Answer: knows
93. Muck and _______ go together.
Answer: money
94. Murder will _______.
Answer: out
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