Test Your Memory (Popular Sayings)

Just for fun I put together a list of "popular sayings/quotes" to test your memory. The fill ins get progressively harder as you go. The answers are at the end of the test. Hope you have fun...

Test Your Memory (Fill in the Blanks):

1. There's a ______ born every minute.

2. A stitch in time saves ______.

3. Too many ______ spoil the broth.

4. What you see is what you ______.

5. You can't teach an old dog ______ tricks.

6. Once ______, twice shy.

7. There's no place like ______.

8. Star light, star bright, first star I see ______.

9. No man can ______ two masters.

10. Beware of ______ bearing gifts.

11. He who laughs last, laughs ______.

12. ______ makes the heart grow fonder.

13. All that ______ is not gold.

14. ______ was not built in a day.

15. A dry March, a wet April and a cool May, fill barn and ______ and bring much hay.

16. The ______ is cast.

17. Men make houses, women make ______.

18. All cats are ______ in the dark.

19. What a man says drunk, he thinks ______.

20. In the land of the blind, the ______-______ man is king.

Answers: 1. sucker; 2. nine; 3. cooks; 4. get; 5. new; 6. bitten; 7. home; 8. tonight; 9. serve; 10. Greeks; 11. best; 12. absence; 13. glitters; 14. Rome; 15. cellar; 16. die; 17. homes; 18. grey; 19. sober; 20. one-eyed.

(Source: Alphabetical List of English Proverbs)