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1. The tailor makes the _______.
Answer: man
2. Take _______ of the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.
Answer: care
3. Take heed of the _______ in the grass.
Answer: snake
4. Take the bull by the _______.
Answer: horns
5. Take things as they _______.
Answer: come
6. Talk of the _______ and he's sure to appear.
Answer: devil
7. There are _______ sides to every question.
Answer: two
8. There's a _______ sheep in every flock.
Answer: black
9. There's many a good _______ played on an old fiddle.
Answer: tune
10. There's many a slip between the _______ and the lip.
Answer: cup
11. There is no garden without its _______.
Answer: weeds
12. There's no place like _______.
Answer: home
13. There's no pleasure without _______.
Answer: pain
14. There is no _______ without thorns.
Answer: rose
15. There is no _______ road to learning.
Answer: royal
16. There's no _______ without fire.
Answer: smoke
17. There is no time like the _______.
Answer: present
18. There is nothing _______ under the sun.
Answer: new
19. There is nothing constant except _______.
Answer: change
20. There is safety in _______.
Answer: numbers
21. They assume _______ who know the least.
Answer: most
22. They brag most who can do _______.
Answer: least
23. A thing of _______ is a joy forever.
Answer: beauty
24. Those who live in _______ houses should not throw stones.
Answer: glass
25. Those whom the Gods _______ die young.
Answer: love
26. Time and _______ wait for no man.
Answer: tide
27. _______ is money.
Answer: Time
28. To _______ is human, to forgive, divine.
Answer: err
29. _______ is another day.
Answer: Tomorrow
30. Tomorrow never _______.
Answer: comes
31. The _______ ever turns to the aching tooth.
Answer: tongue
32. The tongue is not _______, yet it cuts.
Answer: steel
33. Too many _______ spoil the broth.
Answer: cooks
34. A _______ is known by its fruit.
Answer: tree
35. Two blacks do not make a _______.
Answer: white
36. Two dogs fight for a _______, and a third runs away with it.
Answer: bone
37. Two _______ are better than one.
Answer: heads
38. _______ is company, three is none.
Answer: Two
39. Two's _______, three's a crowd.
Answer: company
40. Two _______ do not make a right.
Answer: wrongs
41. United we _______, divided we fall.
Answer: stand
42. Variety is the _______ of life.
Answer: spice
43. Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of _______.
Answer: themselves
44. Take not a musket to kill a _______.
Answer: butterfly
45. Take the _______ with the smooth.
Answer: rough
46. Take the _______ for the deed.
Answer: will
47. Take things as you _______ them.
Answer: find
48. Take time by the _______.
Answer: forelock
49. _______ differ.
Answer: Tastes
50. A _______ never loses in the telling.
Answer: tale
51. There are as good _______ in the sea as ever came out of it.
Answer: fish
52. There are more ways of killing a _______ than by choking it with cream.
Answer: cat
53. There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and _______.
Answer: statistics
54. There are tricks in every _______.
Answer: trade
55. There are _______ within wheels.
Answer: wheels
56. There is a sin of _______ as well as of commission.
Answer: omission
57. There is a _______ in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
Answer: tide
58. There is a time to _______ and a time to be silent.
Answer: speak
59. There is _______ among thieves.
Answer: honor
60. There's many a _______ word spoken in jest.
Answer: true
61. There's no disputing about _______.
Answer: tastes
62. There's no fool like an _______ fool.
Answer: old
63. There's no peace for the _______.
Answer: wicked
64. There is no _______ without chaff.
Answer: wheat
65. There is nothing that _______ less than civility.
Answer: costs
66. They also _______ who only stand and wait.
Answer: serve
67. The _______ end of the wedge is dangerous.
Answer: thin
68. A thing you don't want is dear at any _______.
Answer: price
69. Things are seldom what they _______.
Answer: seem
70. Things done cannot be _______.
Answer: undone
71. Think not on what you _______ as much as on what you have.
Answer: lack
72. Through _______ to the stars.
Answer: hardship
73. Through obedience learn to _______.
Answer: command
74. Throw out a sprat to catch a _______.
Answer: mackerel
75. Time is the great _______.
Answer: healer
76. _______ flies.
Answer: Time
77. Times _______.
Answer: change
78. Too much _______ lost Paradise.
Answer: curiosity
79. Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no _______.
Answer: trifle
80. Truth is stranger than _______.
Answer: fiction
81. The truth will _______.
Answer: out
82. Two of a trade can never _______.
Answer: agree
83. Uneasy lies the _______ that wears the crown.
Answer: head
84. Virtue is its own _______.
Answer: reward
85. The voice of the _______ is the voice of God.
Answer: people
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