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- Complete the following
(a) Man Proposes …………………
(b) Spare the rod and ………………
(c) Discretion is ……………………
(d) Well Begun ……………………
- What is it that blows nobody good?
- Who calls the Tune?
- (a) Who tell no tales?
(b) With what is the way to Hell paved?
- “To be the cat’s paw of” means “to be the tool of”. Why cat’s paw?
- Insert the appropriate animal’s names in the following:
(a) A …… in a China shop
(b) don’t cast your pearls before the ……
(c) Let the …… out of the bag.
(d) The black …… of the family.
- What is it that is ……?
(a) its own reward
(b) skin-deep
(c) sweet
- Which American President said, “It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river”?
- What does the following mean?
(a) “to be on the horns of a dilemma”
(b) “crossing the Rubicon”
- (a) If you are lucky at cards when will you be unlucky?
(b) What happens to those whom the Gods love?
- What should you do if you wish to be healthy, wealthy and wise?
- Where shouldn’t you wash your dirty linen?
- (a) What is meant by mind your P’s and Q’s?
(b) What is meant by “look before you leap”?
- If you go to Rome, what are you advised to do?
- Complete the following:
(a) One man’s meat …………
(b) Fools rush …………………
(c) To pour oil ………………
(d) Let the pot call ……………
- (a) Who is soon parted from his money?
(b) Who shouldn’t throw stones?
- What is it that ………?
(a) makes most noise
(b) maketh a ready man
(c) has a silver lining
- “Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you ……”
- (a) What should you strike when it is hot?
(b) What shouldn’t you put in one basket?
- Fill in the blanks:
(a) Ali’s well …………
(b) Fine feathers ………
(c) The least said ………
(d) Necessity is ………
Answers to Proverbs and Sayings Quiz Questions
- (a) God disposes
(b) spoil the child
(c) the better part of valour
(d) is half done
- An ill-wind
- He who pays the piper
- (a) Dead men
(b) good intentions
- In the fable, the monkey used the cat to pull roasted chestnuts from the fire.
- (a) Bull
(b) Swine
(c) cat
(d) Sheep
- (a) Virtue
(b) beauty
(c) revenge
- Abraham Lincoln
- (a) To be faced by a difficult choice between alternatives equally attractive
(b) Going ahead with a project with no hope of turning back
- (a) in love
(b) they die young
- Go early to bed be early to rise
- in public
- (a) act with propriety
(b) think before acting
- Do as Romans do
- (a) is another man’s poison
(b) where angels fear to tread
(c) on troubled waters
(d) the kettle black
- (a) A fool
(b) people who live in glass houses
- (a) Empty vessels
(b) conference
(c) every cloud
- weep alone
- (a) Iron
(b) All your eggs
- (a) that ends well
(b) make fine birds
(c) the soonest mended
(d) the mother of invention
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