Can you name the last few words to these adages (volume II)?

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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Adages II Quiz

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Published: June 24th, 2009
Category: Language
Plays: 174,363

Tags: few, adage, last

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	CarmineClash:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 04:16 GMT	72 points
	Poor cats.

	VizierZP:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 04:18 GMT	0 points
	why not "won't be fooled again"

	Plasma:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 04:20 GMT	121 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 04:31 GMT	5 points
	@ Plasma--he just may. It takes "can't get fooled again".

	sactoshc:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 04:35 GMT	17 points
	Thanks to my grandmother, I got 24/24 first time out! Great quiz.

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	pr:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 04:45 GMT	6 points
	My family always said "Blood is thicker than mud." The Family Stone that is.

	melissa:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 04:47 GMT	11 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 04:48 GMT	34 points
	@moviedynamic: i thought that too for a sec. Apparently, Smash Mouth has lied to us all

	zalagreensbury:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 04:48 GMT	14 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 04:49 GMT	10 points
	The one about beauty also accepts "in the eye of the beholder" as an answer.

	starsaphire:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 04:52 GMT	4 points
	Many thanks to my grandparents. Got 'em all with 4 minutes to spare!

	Haunter:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 04:53 GMT	52 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 04:54 GMT	2 points
	@ 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 05:00 GMT	8 points
	this game has a bit of a thing against cats :-p

	lalalala:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 05:08 GMT	21 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 05:31 GMT	4 points
	I always thought that it was "all that glisters is not gold"...

	zombifany:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 05:32 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 05:35 GMT	4 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.

	big e:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 05:57 GMT	-3 points
	the fact that "spare the rod spoil the child," is second to last guessed on this quiz says a lot about kids these days if you ask me, and i'm a kid myself, there's nothing wrong with spanking a kid, and it does more harm not to spank them than it does to spank them.

	Giants2082:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 05:58 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 06:13 GMT	11 points
	oldkent - yes, in Shakespeare it is 'glisters' (Merchant of Venice)

	NoVan:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 06:28 GMT	6 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 06:40 GMT	10 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 06:43 GMT	17 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 07:14 GMT	9 points
	I love the adages quiz! Hooray for another one! ^^

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	jacintos:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 08:28 GMT	3 points
	good quiz. I only missed the one about a sow's ear. never heard that before

	foyherald:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 08:41 GMT	10 points
	How about "Where there's a will.....There's a motive!"?

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	BenUK:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 09:29 GMT	22 points
	I genuinely believed the last one was 'Beauty is only a lightswitch away'

	lulubelles:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 09:46 GMT	3 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 10:44 GMT	5 points
	Well, any trekkie will get at leat one on this list.

	Dutch:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 10:53 GMT	6 points
	Did anyone try "to Spiderface"? If you don't watch "The Office" you won't get it.

	LeviSamJuno:	Jun 24th, 2009 at 10:59 GMT	8 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 11:28 GMT	2 points
	never heard the silk purse one - got all the others.