SELECTED PROVERBS – SET 4

 

SELECTED PROVERBS – SET 4

 

           16. a. Prevention is better than cure

                   b. Practice makes perfect.

                     c.   Pen is mightier than the sword.

                        d.   Penny wise, pound foolish.

 

           17. a. Mathematics is the queen of all sciences.

                 b. Questions beget answers.

                   c.   Quickly come, quickly gone.

                      d.  Quantity without quality .

 

            18. a. Rome was not built in a day.

                    b. Rose by any name , will smell as sweet.

                      c.  Rumour is a great traveler.

                         d.   Repent and be rewarded..

 

             19. a. Silence is golden.

                    b. Something is better than nothing.

                     c. Strike when the iron is  hot.

                      d. Seeing is believing

 

              20. a. Think before you ink.

                        b. Things are not always what they seem.

                          c.   Too many cooks spoil the broth

                             d. Two heads are better than one

                               e. Two wrongs do not make a right

 

20 proverbs selected for their  simplicity in sentence

Our members may try to find equivalent  proverbs  [or sayings]  in other languages

Please do not  go to Google or books -  delving  into one’s own stock and memory will be satisfying .

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