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1. Give a _______ a bad name and hang him.
Answer: dog
2. Give a thief enough _______ and he'll hang himself.
Answer: rope
3. Give and _______.
Answer: take
4. Give credit where _______ is due.
Answer: credit
5. Give the devil his _______.
Answer: due
6. God _______ those who help themselves.
Answer: helps
7. God made the _______, and man made the town.
Answer: country
8. The gods send _______ to those who have no teeth.
Answer: nuts
9. The _______ age was never the present age.
Answer: golden
10. A golden _______ opens every door.
Answer: key
11. Good _______ make good neighbors.
Answer: fences
12. A good _______ is sooner lost than won.
Answer: name
13. The grapes are _______.
Answer: sour
14. Great _______ from little acorns grow.
Answer: oaks
15. Half a _______ is better than no bread.
Answer: loaf
16. The hand that rocks the _______ rules the world.
Answer: cradle
17. Harp not for ever on the same _______.
Answer: string
18. _______ makes waste.
Answer: Haste
19. He gives _______ who gives quickly.
Answer: twice
20. He is _______ that has few wants.
Answer: rich
21. He laughs best who laughs _______.
Answer: last
22. He that cannot _______ cannot command.
Answer: obey
23. He that has a great nose thinks everybody is _______ of it.
Answer: speaking
24. He that is down need fear no _______.
Answer: fall
25. He travels the fastest who travels _______.
Answer: alone
26. He who begins many things, finishes but _______.
Answer: few
27. He who hesitates is _______.
Answer: lost
28. He who makes no mistakes makes _______.
Answer: nothing
29. He who pays the _______ calls the tune.
Answer: piper
30. He who rides a _______ is afraid to dismount.
Answer: tiger
31. He who says what he likes shall _______ what he does not like.
Answer: hear
32. He who would climb the ladder must begin at the _______.
Answer: bottom
33. Health is _______.
Answer: wealth
34. Heaven helps those who _______ themselves.
Answer: help
35. A heavy _______ makes a light heart.
Answer: purse
36. A _______ between keeps friendships green.
Answer: hedge
37. Help a lame _______ over a stile.
Answer: dog
38. _______ repeats itself.
Answer: History
39. _______ is the best policy.
Answer: Honesty
40. Hope for the best and prepare for the _______.
Answer: worst
41. _______ is the best sauce.
Answer: Hunger
42. Give a lie twenty-four hours' start, and you can never _______ it.
Answer: overtake
43. Give knaves an _______ and they will take a yard.
Answer: inch
44. Give us the _______, and we will finish the job.
Answer: tools
45. Gluttony kills more than the _______.
Answer: sword
46. God is always on the _______ of the big batallions.
Answer: side
47. God tempers the _______ to the shorn lamb.
Answer: wind
48. Good company on the road is the _______ cut.
Answer: shortest
49. A good _______ makes a good wife.
Answer: husband
50. A good _______ is none the worse for being told twice.
Answer: tale
51. Good _______ needs no bush.
Answer: wine
52. Grasp all, _______ all.
Answer: lose
53. A great city, a great _______.
Answer: solitude
54. The greatest talkers are the least _______.
Answer: doers
55. A growing youth has a _______ in his belly.
Answer: wolf
56. Half the _______ knows not how the other half lives.
Answer: world
57. Happy is the country that has no _______.
Answer: history
58. Haste trips over its own _______.
Answer: heels
59. He cannot speak well that cannot hold his _______.
Answer: tongue
60. He should have a long _______ that sups with the devil.
Answer: spoon
61. He that commits a _______ thinks everyone speaks of it.
Answer: fault
62. He that fights and _______ away may live to fight another day.
Answer: runs
63. He that hath a full _______ never wanted a friend.
Answer: purse
64. He that hath not silver in his purse should have _______ in his tongue.
Answer: silk
65. He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to _______.
Answer: fortune
66. He that will not when he _______, when he will he shall have nay.
Answer: may
67. He that would eat the kernel must crack the _______.
Answer: nut
68. He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of _______.
Answer: hens
69. He that would the daughter win, must with the _______ first begin.
Answer: mother
70. He who _______ all confesses all.
Answer: denies
71. He who excuses himself _______ himself.
Answer: accuses
72. He who gives fair words feeds you with an empty _______.
Answer: spoon
73. He who goes against the fashion is himself its _______.
Answer: slave
74. He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest _______.
Answer: stung
75. He who _______ through a hole may see what will vex him.
Answer: peeps
76. Hide not your _______ under a bushel.
Answer: light
77. The highest branch is not the _______ roost.
Answer: safest
78. Hitch your wagon to a _______.
Answer: star
79. Hoist your sail when the _______ is fair.
Answer: wind
80. Hope deferred makes the _______ sick.
Answer: heart
81. Hope springs _______ in the human breast.
Answer: eternal
82. A house _______ against itself cannot stand.
Answer: divided
83. Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pays to _______.
Answer: virtue
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