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Can you name the last few words to these adages? Enter an adage in the box below Correctly named adages will show up in the table below Answers do not have to be guessed in order Also try the original Adages quiz You have 5 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Search: Popular trivia games today 4 Letter Capitals 2192 TV Shows (U.S.) 1772 Broadway Opening Lines 1731 You Do Know Jack 788 Lousy descriptions of Tom Hanks movies 676 Same Last Name 673 And more...
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Adage	Answer
An apple a day...
You cannot make a silk purse out of...
What goes up...
Revenge is a dish...
All that glitters...
Spare the rod and...
Don't throw the baby out...
Loose lips...
Beggars cannot...
There is no use crying over...
A friend in need is...
A watched pot...

Adage	Answer
Blood is thicker...
Curiosity killed...
Cut off your nose to...
When in Rome, do...
Don't leave for tomorrow what...
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...
Why pay for the cow when you can...
Keep your friends close and...
The grass is always greener...
There is more than one way to...
Where there's a will...
Beauty is only...

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	CarmineClash:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 08:16 GMT	51 points
	Poor cats.

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	Plasma:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 08:20 GMT	92 points
	"There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." —President George W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002 Unfortunately, I'm guessing Dubya won't get 100% on this quiz...

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	CANDM:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 08:31 GMT	-1 points
	@ Plasma--he just may. It takes "can't get fooled again".

	sactoshc:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 08:35 GMT	11 points
	Thanks to my grandmother, I got 24/24 first time out! Great quiz.

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	pr:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 08:45 GMT	4 points
	My family always said "Blood is thicker than mud." The Family Stone that is.

	melissa:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 08:47 GMT	8 points
	Never realized what interesting visuals most adages suggest until seeing these all together. Yes, poor cat -- and what about the sow, the nose, and the baby? These are almost as gruesome as fairy tales!

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	fatbeard:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 08:48 GMT	26 points
	@moviedynamic: i thought that too for a sec. Apparently, Smash Mouth has lied to us all

	zalagreensbury:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 08:48 GMT	10 points
	Aw, I just thought about that scene in 'Amelie' when Amelie's friend tests Nino's knowledge of adages to prove if he's a keeper or not. Gotta love that kind of antiquity.

	IHateRegistering:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 08:49 GMT	9 points
	The one about beauty also accepts "in the eye of the beholder" as an answer.

	starsaphire:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 08:52 GMT	4 points
	Many thanks to my grandparents. Got 'em all with 4 minutes to spare!

	Haunter:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 08:53 GMT	42 points
	I wish we could see the answers that people tried before they got them right...they'd be hilarious. "Why pay for the cow when you can steal the farm"? No? Try again...

	Diablo11d:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 08:54 GMT	1 point
	@ Dodge and wes_mantooth, adages are exact sayings. to get it you really have to have the words. to except spilled for spilt is alright, because there can be discrepencies in hearing. but you would need to have the exact wordage to get it, without extra words also.

	diamondsight:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 09:00 GMT	6 points
	this game has a bit of a thing against cats :-p

	lalalala:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 09:08 GMT	15 points
	To everyone who is saying "a watched pot won't boil"... think about it grammatically. Saying it "won't boil" implies that the pot of water is simply unable to boil, but saying it "never boils" adds the aspect of time into it, meaning that you're waiting for it to boil but it doesn't (yet). The word "never" is what makes the saying related to time. Since the adage is warning against impatience, "never boil" makes sense but "won't boil" does not.

	oldkent:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 09:31 GMT	3 points
	I always thought that it was "all that glisters is not gold"...

	zombifany:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 09:32 GMT	14 points
	Well, when in Rome. Yes, go on. Do as the Romans do, its an old expression. Really, I've never heard of it.

	gopaladins:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 09:35 GMT	5 points
	most of the time you can get credit for answers regardless of how (or whether) you use the space bar to separate words. for example "neverboils" usually would work just as "never boils" does. i've started to try to type without spaces to save time (freakish, i know). however, this quiz doesn't respect the "no spaces" strategy for all answers.

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	Giants2082:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 09:58 GMT	3 points
	not gonna lie, only reason i knew "spare the rod" was because of V for Vendetta. great quiz

	Bethannie:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 10:13 GMT	8 points
	oldkent - yes, in Shakespeare it is 'glisters' (Merchant of Venice)

	NoVan:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 10:28 GMT	3 points
	@big e: I'm a teenager myself, and I have always believed in "spare the rod and spoil the child". One should do both.

	Ads:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 10:40 GMT	8 points
	You can, however, make a sow's ear lined silk purse if you a sow's ear and some silk...

	bradwell:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 10:43 GMT	15 points
	i believe the actual phrase is: a friend in need is a friend indeed, a friend with weed is better. a friend with breasts and all the rest, a friend who's dressed in leather.

	kyah:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 11:14 GMT	7 points
	I love the adages quiz! Hooray for another one! ^^

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	jacintos:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 12:28 GMT	3 points
	good quiz. I only missed the one about a sow's ear. never heard that before

	foyherald:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 12:41 GMT	7 points
	How about "Where there's a will.....There's a motive!"?

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	BenUK:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 13:29 GMT	15 points
	I genuinely believed the last one was 'Beauty is only a lightswitch away'

	lulubelles:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 13:46 GMT	2 points
	I got the loose lips one confused with careless talk costs lives then could not think of anything else but that. grr. Excellent quiz though, funny how international all these sayings are

	FlyingFishMonkey:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 14:44 GMT	2 points
	Well, any trekkie will get at leat one on this list.

	Dutch:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 14:53 GMT	5 points
	Did anyone try "to Spiderface"? If you don't watch "The Office" you won't get it.

	LeviSamJuno:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 14:59 GMT	7 points
	I was slightly confused on "There's more than one way to..." because of a fellow co-worker who always says "...de-epidermize a feline." I had to think of that phrase to remember "skin a cat."

	shel99:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 15:28 GMT	2 points
	never heard the silk purse one - got all the others.