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Proverbs

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  1. A bird in ___ hand is worth two in ___ bush.

  2. All's well ___ ends well.

  3. An apple ___ day keeps the doctor away.

  4. A penny saved ___ a penny gained.

  5. A stitch ___ time saves nine.

  6. Better late ___ never.

  7. Early to bed ___ early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy ___ wise.

  8. Every dog ___ its day.

  9. First come, ___ served.

  10. Great minds ___ alike.

  11. He laughs best who laughs ___.

  12. Let sleeping dogs ___.

  13. Look ___ you leap.

  14. No news ___ good news.

  15. One good turn deserves ___.

  16. Out of the frying pan and ___ the fire.

  17. Too ___ cooks spoil the broth.

  18. Two heads are ___ than one.

  19. Where there's ___ will there's a way.

  20. When the cat's ___ the mice will play

Copyright (C) 1998 Larry Kelly (lkelly@ge.aitech.ac.jp)
This quiz is part of the HTML-Only Self-Study Quizzes which is part of Activities for ESL Students, a project by The Internet TESL Journal.