| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | THE BIBLE BOOK SAITH... $400: Living up to its name: "A wise man will hear, and will increase learning" Proverbs |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | STUPID PROVERBS $200: "Fight" this "with fire" fire |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | STUPID PROVERBS $400: An American proverb says, "Money begets" this money |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | STUPID PROVERBS $600: You'll find things are in order with "a place for" this "and everything in its place" place for everything |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | STUPID PROVERBS $800: "Nothing" does this "like success" succeeds |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | STUPID PROVERBS $1000: We're due for this proverb:
"Give credit where credit is" this due |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | LOOKING SHARP! $200: In Proverbs 5 "her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged" this sword |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | BIBLE STUDY $800: "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine" is from this book of wise writings Proverbs |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | FANCIFIED PROVERBS $200: A plethora of chefs ruins bouillon too many cooks spoil the broth |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | FANCIFIED PROVERBS $400: In the absence of any fracture, refrain from repair if it ain't broke, don't fix it |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | FANCIFIED PROVERBS $600: Inquisitiveness eliminated Snowbell curiosity killed the cat |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | FANCIFIED PROVERBS $800: Pulchritude constitutes an observational aspect within the percipient beauty is in the eye of the beholder |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | FANCIFIED PROVERBS $1000: A spinning mineral rejects the retention of any Bryophyta a rolling stone gathers no moss |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | BIBLE BOOKS $800: Tradition says this king wrote the books of Ecclesiastes & Proverbs Solomon |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY $1000: In Proverbs 1:7, "Fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge "; in Proverbs 9:10, it's the beginning of this wisdom |
| #8453, aired 2021-07-28 | CHILDREN IN THE BIBLE $400: Chapter 22 of this book of wisdom says that if you start children off on the right path, even when old, they will not stray from it Proverbs |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | QUOTATIONS $400: The Book of Proverbs provided a play & movie title with "he that troubleth his own house shall inherit" this the wind |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | VOCABULARY $800: The Bible, including the book of Proverbs, gives us "gird one's" these loins |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | FIRST WORDS $1200: The first line of an Old Testament book is "The proverbs of" him, "the son of David, king of Israel" Solomon |
| #8125, aired 2019-12-27 | PROVERBS $200: It's what "the squeaky wheel gets" the grease |
| #8125, aired 2019-12-27 | PROVERBS $400: When it comes to team participation, remember that "a chain is no stronger than" this its weakest link |
| #8125, aired 2019-12-27 | PROVERBS $600: A computer term, GIGO is short for this garbage in, garbage out |
| #8125, aired 2019-12-27 | PROVERBS $800: Economist Milton Friedman was fond of the saying, "There's no such thing as" this a free lunch |
| #8125, aired 2019-12-27 | PROVERBS $2,000 (Daily Double): In Spanish this familiar proverb is "Mas vale tarde que nunca" Better late than never |
| #8091, aired 2019-11-11 | THE KING JAMES BIBLE SAYETH... $800: This book namechecks itself in the very first line: These sayings of "the son of David" Proverbs |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | PROVERBS & EXPRESSIONS $400: Shakespeare noted that "all the world's" one of these a stage |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | PROVERBS & EXPRESSIONS $800: Boxers embrace the pithy old saying "don't lead with your" this chin |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | PROVERBS & EXPRESSIONS $1200: Snitches get stitches, & these "tell no tales" dead men |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | PROVERBS & EXPRESSIONS $1600: Ask Pinocchio-- one of these "should have a good memory" a liar |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | PROVERBS & EXPRESSIONS $2000: Be prepared! "Put your trust in God, but keep" this "dry" your powder |
| #7971, aired 2019-04-15 | APRIL FOOLERY $600: This Bible book has many fool maxims, such as "a fool uttereth all his mind; but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards" Proverbs |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $1200: This book of wise sayings includes "The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer" Proverbs |
| #7766, aired 2018-05-21 | BIBLE STUDY $1000: This book that speaks of vanity also says, "Much study is a weariness of the flesh" Ecclesiastes |
| #7764, aired 2018-05-17 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $800: "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find" Matthew |
| #7577, aired 2017-07-18 | THE WISE MAN'S FEAR $400: This book of the Bible says, "A wise man feareth and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth and is confident" Proverbs |
| #7463, aired 2017-02-08 | THE BOOK OF PROVERBS $200: Chapter 1 tells you you're reading "the proverbs of" this man, "king of Israel" Solomon |
| #7463, aired 2017-02-08 | THE BOOK OF PROVERBS $400: "Go to" this hardworking insect, "thou sluggard; consider her ways" an ant |
| #7463, aired 2017-02-08 | THE BOOK OF PROVERBS $600: Proverbs 13 warns that "He that spareth" this "hateth his son" the rod |
| #7463, aired 2017-02-08 | THE BOOK OF PROVERBS $1,000 (Daily Double): The house of wisdom, says the 9th chapter, hath this many pillars seven |
| #7463, aired 2017-02-08 | THE BOOK OF PROVERBS $1000: "The fruit of the righteous is" this, which also grows in the garden of Eden the Tree of Life |
| #7449, aired 2017-01-19 | SILENT "O" $2000: A passage in Proverbs states, "Where there is no vision", they "perish" the people |
| #7440, aired 2017-01-06 | BIBLE BOOK 'EM $600: "A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother" Proverbs |
| #7347, aired 2016-07-19 | THESE ARE BIBLE BOOKS $1600: If you turn! turn! turn! the pages of the Bible, you'll find this book right after Proverbs Ecclesiastes |
| #7285, aired 2016-04-22 | BEASTS IN THE BIBLE $400: Proverbs warns that mocking your parents will result in these crowlike birds pecking out your eyes ravens |
| #7271, aired 2016-04-04 | THE BOOK OF PROVERBS SAYETH $1200: "As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair" one of these "which is without discretion" a woman |
| #7271, aired 2016-04-04 | THE BOOK OF PROVERBS SAYETH $1600: "The way of" this dope "is right in his own eyes" a fool |
| #7271, aired 2016-04-04 | THE BOOK OF PROVERBS SAYETH $2000: "A false balance" & "lying lips" are each this 11-letter word "to the Lord" abomination |
| #7155, aired 2015-10-23 | BIBLICAL MENAGERIE $600: Proverbs compares a "fair woman which is without discretion" to a jewel in this animal's snout a pig |
| #7023, aired 2015-03-11 | CHAPTER 1, VERSE 1 $400: "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly" Psalms |
| #6865, aired 2014-06-20 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $400: In an image found in the Book of Proverbs, a persuasive talker is said to have this colorful organ a silver tongue |
| #6859, aired 2014-06-12 | BIBLICAL REVELRY $800: A collection of sage advice, this biblical book warns, "he that loveth wine & oil shall not be rich" Proverbs |
| #6842, aired 2014-05-20 | FIRST THINGS THIRD $1000: Tradition says this third king of ancient Israel composed many proverbs & songs Solomon |
| #6839, aired 2014-05-15 | A BLANK EXPRESSION $1000: From Proverbs 11, "He that troubleth his own house shall ____ ____ ____" inherit the wind |
| #6766, aired 2014-02-03 | NAME THE BIBLE BOOK $400: "Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins" Proverbs |
| #6766, aired 2014-02-03 | WORLD LITERATURE $2000: Igbo proverbs are found throughout this 1958 Chinua Achebe novel that sounds like a bad game of Jenga Things Fall Apart |
| #6693, aired 2013-10-23 | SEVEN UP $800: Proverbs 9:1 & the title of T.E. Lawrence's memoir mention 7 of these the pillars of wisdom |
| #6673, aired 2013-09-25 | THE BIBLE $200: The Bible attributes more than 3,000 proverbs to this monarch (King) Solomon |
| #6634, aired 2013-06-20 | A BIBLICAL ANATOMY LESSON $600: One of this book's maxims is "the lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment" Proverbs |
| #6621, aired 2013-06-03 | CATS IN PROVERBS $200: "____ killed the cat" Curiousity |
| #6621, aired 2013-06-03 | CATS IN PROVERBS $400: "When the cat's away, the mice will ____" play |
| #6621, aired 2013-06-03 | CATS IN PROVERBS $600: "There's more than one way to ____ a cat" skin |
| #6621, aired 2013-06-03 | CATS IN PROVERBS $800: "In the dark all cats are ____" grey |
| #6621, aired 2013-06-03 | CATS IN PROVERBS $1000: "A cat in ____ catches no mice" gloves |
| #6531, aired 2013-01-28 | PROVERBS $200: It is said that this "lies at the bottom of a well"; it's also "stranger than fiction" truth |
| #6531, aired 2013-01-28 | PROVERBS $400: It's the proverb represented by the trio seen here See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil." |
| #6531, aired 2013-01-28 | PROVERBS $600: Now for your spring forecast"... "March comes in like" this "& goes out like a lamb" a lion |
| #6531, aired 2013-01-28 | PROVERBS $800: The Spanish equivalent of this proverb is "No solo de pan vive el hombre" Man doesn't live by bread alone |
| #6531, aired 2013-01-28 | PROVERBS $1000: Especially in today's job market, "He who would climb" this "must begin at the bottom" the corporate ladder |
| #6283, aired 2012-01-04 | NAMETH THE BIBLE BOOK $1000: "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction" Proverbs |
| #6273, aired 2011-12-21 | THE 21st $800: "There is no new thing under the sun", at least according to this 21st book of the Old Testament Ecclesiastes |
| #6193, aired 2011-07-13 | THE NEXT BIBLE BOOK AFTER... $1600: Psalms Proverbs |
| #6175, aired 2011-06-17 | WHICH BIBLE BOOK? $600: "A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother" Proverbs |
| #6066, aired 2011-01-17 | THE NEXT BIBLE BOOK, ALPHABETICALLY $800: Proverbs Psalms |
| #5923, aired 2010-05-19 | BIBLICAL PROVERBS: FILL IN THE BLANK $200: "To the hungry soul every bitter thing is ____" sweet |
| #5923, aired 2010-05-19 | BIBLICAL PROVERBS: FILL IN THE BLANK $400: "The ____ is servant to the lender" borrower |
| #5923, aired 2010-05-19 | BIBLICAL PROVERBS: FILL IN THE BLANK $600: "As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is ____ news from a far country" good |
| #5923, aired 2010-05-19 | BIBLICAL PROVERBS: FILL IN THE BLANK $1000: "Pride goeth before ____" (& don't say "a fall") destruction |
| #5923, aired 2010-05-19 | BIBLICAL PROVERBS: FILL IN THE BLANK $2,000 (Daily Double): "Lust not after her beauty in thine ____" heart |
| #5838, aired 2010-01-20 | WHEEL OF PROVERBS! $400: You might want to slow things down
_AST_
MA__S
WAST_ Haste makes waste |
| #5838, aired 2010-01-20 | WHEEL OF PROVERBS! $800: Come join us--it'll be fun
T__ M_R_
T__
M_RR__R The more the merrier |
| #5838, aired 2010-01-20 | WHEEL OF PROVERBS! $1200: Don't be a hypocrite, do this
PR_CT_C_
___T ___
PR__C_ Practice what you preach |
| #5838, aired 2010-01-20 | WHEEL OF PROVERBS! $1600: We learn by doing
E__ERIE_CE
I_ T_E
_E_T
TE_C_ER Experience is the best teacher |
| #5838, aired 2010-01-20 | WHEEL OF PROVERBS! $2000: It's better to know what's coming
F_R_W_R__D
__
F_R__RM_D Forewarned is forearmed |
| #5819, aired 2009-12-24 | GO GREYHOUND $1600: In Proverbs 30:31 this son of David wrote about a greyhound, the only dog breed mentioned in the Old Testament Solomon |
| #5816, aired 2009-12-21 | PRECIOUS SENTIMENTS $1200: Proverbs 31:10 tells us that a "virtuous woman" has a price "far above" these rubies |
| #5715, aired 2009-06-12 | QUOTES FROM THE KING JAMES BIBLE $1000: According to Proverbs, "He that troubleth his own house shall" do this inherit the wind |
| #5624, aired 2009-02-05 | BIBLICAL QUOTES $1000: In Proverbs this king writes, "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge" Solomon |
| #5578, aired 2008-12-03 | KING JAMES BIBLE QUOTATIONS $4,800 (Daily Double): "A soft answer turneth away wrath; but grievous words stir up anger" is one of this book's adages Proverbs |
| #5520, aired 2008-09-12 | ABBREVIATED PROVERBS $400: "Dead men
T. N. T." tell no tales |
| #5520, aired 2008-09-12 | ABBREVIATED PROVERBS $800: "Many hands
M. L. W." make light work |
| #5520, aired 2008-09-12 | ABBREVIATED PROVERBS $1200: "Strike
W. T. I. I. H." while the iron is hot |
| #5520, aired 2008-09-12 | ABBREVIATED PROVERBS $1600: "Beggars
C. B. C." can't be choosers |
| #5520, aired 2008-09-12 | ABBREVIATED PROVERBS $3,000 (Daily Double): "The eyes are
the W. O. T. S." windows of the soul |
| #5504, aired 2008-07-10 | PHRASES IN THE KING JAMES BIBLE $400: Proverbs actually says "He that spareth" this "hateth his son" the rod |
| #5320, aired 2007-10-26 | PROVERBS $400: It "seldom knocks twice" opportunity |
| #5320, aired 2007-10-26 | PROVERBS $800: "There is honor even among" these thieves |
| #5320, aired 2007-10-26 | PROVERBS $1200: "Close only counts in" this backyard game horseshoes |
| #5320, aired 2007-10-26 | PROVERBS $1600: "Marry in haste and" do this "at leisure" repent |
| #5320, aired 2007-10-26 | PROVERBS $2000: Alexander Pope wrote, "Hope springs eternal" in here the human breast |
| #5224, aired 2007-05-03 | READ YOUR BIBLE $200: Proverbs 30 speaks of 4 things difficult to understand, including the flight of this bird of prey eagle |
| #5215, aired 2007-04-20 | OLD TESTAMENT BOOKS IN OTHER WORDS $400: Short pithy sayings espousing fundamental truths Proverbs |
| #5055, aired 2006-07-28 | THE TESTAMENT $2000: "Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. For their heart studieth destruction" the Book of Proverbs |
| #5034, aired 2006-06-29 | IT'S IN THE BIBLE $800: Several proverbs mock the slothful man who won't leave his house for fear of being eaten by this animal the lion |
| #4915, aired 2006-01-13 | PROVERBS BY INITIALS $200: "Blood is T.T.W." thicker than water |
| #4915, aired 2006-01-13 | PROVERBS BY INITIALS $400: "Look B.Y.L." before you leap |
| #4915, aired 2006-01-13 | PROVERBS BY INITIALS $600: "T.H.A. better than one" two heads are (two hands are accepted) |
| #4915, aired 2006-01-13 | PROVERBS BY INITIALS $800: "A watched P.N.B." pot never boils |
| #4915, aired 2006-01-13 | PROVERBS BY INITIALS $1000: "T.I.S.T. fiction" truth is stranger than |
| #4610, aired 2004-09-24 | BIBLE BOOKS BY FAMOUS PHRASE $400 (Daily Double): "Physician, heal thyself" Luke |
| #4583, aired 2004-07-07 | 5 IN A "ROW" $800: The Book of Proverbs tells us that this person "is servant to the lender" the borrower |
| #4512, aired 2004-03-30 | I PITY THE FOOL $1600: This book of the Bible says, "Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit" Proverbs |
| #4499, aired 2004-03-11 | ALSO A BOOK OF THE BIBLE $600: "A bad workman blames his tools" & "All is fair in love and war" Proverbs |
| #4383, aired 2003-10-01 | THE GOOD BOOK $600: Proverbs says "Look thou not upon" this liquid "when it is red" or "thine eyes should behold strange women" wine |
| #4334, aired 2003-06-05 | GIVE ME AN "H" $1000: The book of Proverbs tells us, "Before honor is" this humility |
| #4279, aired 2003-03-20 | THE BOOK OF PROVERBS $200: If you curse these people whom the 10 Commandments say to honor, your "lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness" your father & mother |
| #4279, aired 2003-03-20 | THE BOOK OF PROVERBS $400: The book of Proverbs comes right after this book in the Bible. but right before it alphabetically Psalms |
| #4279, aired 2003-03-20 | THE BOOK OF PROVERBS $600: Quality associated with the book's kingly author: "Happy is the man that findeth" it, & "getteth understanding" wisdom |
| #4279, aired 2003-03-20 | THE BOOK OF PROVERBS $800: "Drink waters out of thine own cistern" is one of the lines urging avoidance of this sin adultery |
| #4226, aired 2003-01-06 | PROVERBS $400: It "makes waste" haste |
| #4226, aired 2003-01-06 | PROVERBS $800: "Speech is silver" but this "is golden" silence |
| #4226, aired 2003-01-06 | PROVERBS $1200: "Fools rush in where" these beings "fear to tread" angels |
| #4226, aired 2003-01-06 | PROVERBS $2000: Shakespeare gave us "Neither a" this "nor a lender be" borrower |
| #4226, aired 2003-01-06 | PROVERBS $3,800 (Daily Double): It's not just this, but "The love of" this that's "the root of all evil" money |
| #4218, aired 2002-12-25 | THE BIBLE $800: The book of Proverbs is "The Proverbs of" this man, "The Son of David, King of Israel" Solomon |
| #4178, aired 2002-10-30 | STUPID PROVERBS $200: "Fight" this "with fire" fire |
| #4178, aired 2002-10-30 | STUPID PROVERBS $400: You'll find things are in order with "a place for" this "and everything in its place" everything |
| #4178, aired 2002-10-30 | STUPID PROVERBS $600: "Nothing" does this "like success" succeeds |
| #4178, aired 2002-10-30 | STUPID PROVERBS $800: We're due for this proverb: "Give credit where credit is" this due |
| #4178, aired 2002-10-30 | STUPID PROVERBS $1000: "There are none so" this "as those who will not see" blind |
| #4072, aired 2002-04-23 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $800: Proverbs chapter 9 says that "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of" this wisdom |
| #4030, aired 2002-02-22 | A CATEGORY ABOUT NOTHING $200: Nothing proverbs include "Nothing have, nothing crave" & "Nothing ventured, nothing" this lost (gained) |
| #3997, aired 2002-01-08 | SCRIPTURE SAYETH $1000: Proverbs asketh, "Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above" these gems rubies |
| #3919, aired 2001-09-20 | THE GOOD BOOK $800: According to Proverbs, "A merry" one of these "doeth good like a medicine" heart |
| #3914, aired 2001-09-13 | POOCH PROVERBS $100: Even back in 1578, they knew "Who sleepeth with dogs shall rise with" these fleas |
| #3914, aired 2001-09-13 | POOCH PROVERBS $200: "Dogs" do this "by custom" & one doing it "seldom bites" bark |
| #3914, aired 2001-09-13 | POOCH PROVERBS $300: "A dog's nose and a maid's knees are always" this cold |
| #3914, aired 2001-09-13 | POOCH PROVERBS $400: A variation of this proverb adds "and every man his hour" Every dog has its day |
| #3914, aired 2001-09-13 | POOCH PROVERBS $500: "Better to be the head of a dog than the tail of" this majestic animal a lion |
| #3872, aired 2001-06-05 | PRICELINE $100: John Heywood's 16th century book of proverbs mentioned this price "for your thoughts" (What a cheapskate!) A penny |
| #3781, aired 2001-01-29 | CHAPTER 1, VERSE 1 $400: "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly" Psalms |
| #3719, aired 2000-11-02 | RECOGNIZING REPTILES $500: Unlike the feline leopard, the longnose leopard lizard can do this, so no proverbs for him change its spots |
| #3692, aired 2000-09-26 | BIBLICAL ANIMALS $400: Proverbs compares "A fair woman...without discretion" to a jewel in this animal's snout Pig |
| #3681, aired 2000-09-11 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $200: The sayings in this book include "When pride cometh, then cometh shame; but with the lowly is wisdom" Proverbs |
| #3561, aired 2000-02-14 | EDIBLE LINGO $1000: Proverbs 9:17 wisely observes that "Stolen waters are sweet, and" this food "eaten in secret is pleasant" bread |
| #3522, aired 1999-12-21 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $200: Proverbs 31 says an ideal one is industrious, helps the needy & gives advice to those less wise a wife |
| #3468, aired 1999-10-06 | PROVERBS $100: These "make the man" Clothes |
| #3468, aired 1999-10-06 | PROVERBS $200: This "makes the heart grow fonder" Absence |
| #3468, aired 1999-10-06 | PROVERBS $300: Shakespeare said that "no legacy is so rich as" this; maybe that's why it's "the best policy" Honesty |
| #3468, aired 1999-10-06 | PROVERBS $400: It "never boils" A watched pot |
| #3468, aired 1999-10-06 | PROVERBS $500: A Turkish proverb describes a perfect serving of this as "Black as hell, strong as death & sweet as love" Coffee |
| #3415, aired 1999-06-11 | GOOD PROVERBS $100: Oh, shoot! This is "as good as a mile" Miss |
| #3415, aired 1999-06-11 | GOOD PROVERBS $200: "All good things must" do this Come to an end |
| #3415, aired 1999-06-11 | GOOD PROVERBS $300: Not blacktop or yellow brick, "the road to Hell is paved with" these Good intentions |
| #3415, aired 1999-06-11 | GOOD PROVERBS $400: Boy Scouts should heed, "Big words seldom go with good" these Deeds |
| #3415, aired 1999-06-11 | GOOD PROVERBS $500: "A good start is half" this the race (the battle accepted) |
| #3284, aired 1998-12-10 | PROVERBS $100: Unfortunately, this "travels fast" Bad news |
| #3284, aired 1998-12-10 | PROVERBS $200: It's the best time to "make hay" While the sun shines |
| #3284, aired 1998-12-10 | PROVERBS $300: It's a good thing "you can't make" this "out of a sow's ear", who'd want to? A silk purse |
| #3284, aired 1998-12-10 | PROVERBS $500: It's been called "The greatest thief, for it steals half one's life" Sleep |
| #3284, aired 1998-12-10 | PROVERBS $1,000 (Daily Double): "Men make houses" but "Women make" these A home |
| #3208, aired 1998-07-08 | BIBLICAL FOOD & DRINK $100: In Proverbs Agur says, "Surely the churning of" this "bringeth forth butter" milk |
| #3191, aired 1998-06-15 | PROVERBS $100: It "makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise" "Early to bed and early to rise" |
| #3191, aired 1998-06-15 | PROVERBS $200: In "The Wizard of Oz", Dorothy clicks her heels & repeats this before she's whisked back to Kansas "There's no place like home" |
| #3191, aired 1998-06-15 | PROVERBS $300: It "seldom knocks twice", so make the most of it Opportunity |
| #3191, aired 1998-06-15 | PROVERBS $400: "Better the foot slip than" this body part Tongue/lip |
| #3191, aired 1998-06-15 | PROVERBS $500: "Manus manum lavat" is the Latin equivalent of this proverb "One hand washes the other" |
| #3181, aired 1998-06-01 | PROVERBS $200: It "Catches the worm" The early bird |
| #3181, aired 1998-06-01 | PROVERBS $400: There's not only one "to every rule", it also "proves the rule" Exception |
| #3181, aired 1998-06-01 | PROVERBS $600: A variation of this pony proverb says "You may force a man to shut his eyes, but you can't make him sleep" "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink" |
| #3181, aired 1998-06-01 | PROVERBS $1,000 (Daily Double): George Bernard Shaw was the first to observe that "He who can does; he who cannot" does this Teach |
| #3181, aired 1998-06-01 | PROVERBS $1000: The saying "There is nothing new under the sun" is a variation of a proverb in this Old Testament book Ecclesiastes |
| #3177, aired 1998-05-26 | CANINE PROVERBS $100: Completes the timely proverb "Every dog has..." His day |
| #3177, aired 1998-05-26 | CANINE PROVERBS $200: In other words, "There's no way to educate one ancient canine in up-to-date actions" "You can't teach an old dog new tricks" |
| #3177, aired 1998-05-26 | CANINE PROVERBS $300: "Dogs that" do this "at a distance seldom bite" Bark |
| #3177, aired 1998-05-26 | CANINE PROVERBS $400: In Latin it's "Qui me amat, amat et canem meam" "Love me, love my dog" |
| #3177, aired 1998-05-26 | CANINE PROVERBS $500: "Into the mouth of a bad dog often falls a good" one of these Bone |
| #3095, aired 1998-01-30 | PROVERBS $100: A variation of this footwear proverb says "If the glove fits, wear it" If the shoe fits... |
| #3095, aired 1998-01-30 | PROVERBS $200: It's been joked that "people who live in" these proverbial structures "should undress in the basement" glass houses |
| #3095, aired 1998-01-30 | PROVERBS $300: "A closed" one "catches no flies" a mouth |
| #3095, aired 1998-01-30 | PROVERBS $400: You have to "give" him "his due" the devil |
| #3095, aired 1998-01-30 | PROVERBS $500: "The difficult is done at once"; this "takes a little longer" the impossible |
| #3076, aired 1998-01-05 | PROVERBS $200: It completes the proverb "One man's meat is..." another man's poison |
| #3076, aired 1998-01-05 | PROVERBS $400: It precedes "weep and you weep alone" "Laugh and the world laughs with you" |
| #3076, aired 1998-01-05 | PROVERBS $600: It's said that "everything has" one, & "all good things must come to" one an end |
| #3076, aired 1998-01-05 | PROVERBS $1,400 (Daily Double): This proverb about taking a spill is attributed to heavyweight boxer Robert Fitzsimmons "The bigger they are, the harder they fall" |
| #3023, aired 1997-10-22 | DANCING IN THE BIBLE $400: 2 of these that mention dancing are Number 30 & Number 149 Psalms |
| #3000, aired 1997-09-19 | 3,000 $1000: 1 Kings tells us this king spoke 3,000 proverbs; only a fraction appear in Proverbs Solomon |
| #2924, aired 1997-04-24 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $400: This collection of sayings is sometimes referred to as the "Book of Wisdom" Proverbs |
| #2908, aired 1997-04-02 | PROVERBS $100: This product changed the proverb "It never rains but it pours" to "When it rains it pours" Morton salt |
| #2908, aired 1997-04-02 | PROVERBS $200: "Even a worm will" do this Turn |
| #2908, aired 1997-04-02 | PROVERBS $300: "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man" does this "for his friends" Lay down his life |
| #2908, aired 1997-04-02 | PROVERBS $400: This is "forearmed" Forewarned |
| #2908, aired 1997-04-02 | PROVERBS $500: Do this but, "Prepare for the worst" Expect/hope for the best |
| #2886, aired 1997-03-03 | LESSER-KNOWN PROVERBS $200: "Never marry for" this; "ye'll borrow it cheaper" Money |
| #2886, aired 1997-03-03 | LESSER-KNOWN PROVERBS $400: "Fields have eyes and woods have" these; "walls have" them, too Ears |
| #2886, aired 1997-03-03 | LESSER-KNOWN PROVERBS $600: "Punctuality is" this "of business" as "brevity" is this "of wit" The soul |
| #2886, aired 1997-03-03 | LESSER-KNOWN PROVERBS $800: It specifically "tries truth" as well as generally "tries all things" time |
| #2886, aired 1997-03-03 | LESSER-KNOWN PROVERBS $1000: This proverb sometimes ends, "The fewer the better fare" The more, the merrier |
| #2884, aired 1997-02-27 | PROVERBS $100: "You can lead" one of these "to water, but you can't make him drink" Horse |
| #2884, aired 1997-02-27 | PROVERBS $200: According to Edison, "There's no substitute for hard" this Work |
| #2884, aired 1997-02-27 | PROVERBS $300: "There is a black" one of these animals "in every flock" Sheep |
| #2884, aired 1997-02-27 | PROVERBS $400: "A shut" one of these "catches no flies" Mouth |
| #2884, aired 1997-02-27 | PROVERBS $500: "There's no" one of these "like an old" one Fool |
| #2818, aired 1996-11-27 | PROVERBS $100: "You can't make a silk purse" out of this a sow's ear |
| #2818, aired 1996-11-27 | PROVERBS $200: "Imitation is the sincerest form of" it, but beware, it "corrupts both the receiver and the giver" flattery |
| #2818, aired 1996-11-27 | PROVERBS $300: It's where you should "never tell tales" out of school |
| #2818, aired 1996-11-27 | PROVERBS $400: The saying "Strike while the iron is hot" originally alluded to this profession blacksmith |
| #2818, aired 1996-11-27 | PROVERBS $500: These two things "wait for no man" time and tide |
| #2791, aired 1996-10-21 | PROVERBS $100: You should "make" this "slowly" because it "makes waste" haste |
| #2791, aired 1996-10-21 | PROVERBS $200: It's "better late than never" but "better" this "than sorry" safe |
| #2791, aired 1996-10-21 | PROVERBS $300: Based on biblical quotes, the 3 things you should do "because tomorrow we die" eat, drink and be merry |
| #2791, aired 1996-10-21 | PROVERBS $400: Meaning intelligent people can take a hint, this proverb ends, "...is sufficient" a word to the wise |
| #2791, aired 1996-10-21 | PROVERBS $500: If Jim Carrey were to make a sequel to this 1985 film of his, it would probably be called "Twice Shy" Once Bitten |
| #2783, aired 1996-10-09 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $200: The old saying about having this and eating it, too appeared in a 1546 book of proverbs your cake |
| #2766, aired 1996-09-16 | PROVERBS $100: According to Aesop, "Slow and steady" does this wins the race |
| #2766, aired 1996-09-16 | PROVERBS $200: These, "like pie-crust, are made to be broken" promises |
| #2766, aired 1996-09-16 | PROVERBS $300: The Latin proverb "cito maturum cito putridum" translates to "quickly ripe quickly" this quickly rotten |
| #2766, aired 1996-09-16 | PROVERBS $400: It's the popular term for the saying "If anything can go wrong, it will" Murphy's law |
| #2766, aired 1996-09-16 | PROVERBS $500: "It is not work that kills, but" this; it also turns the hair gray worry |
| #2745, aired 1996-07-05 | PROVERBS $200: "No pain,
no" this gain |
| #2745, aired 1996-07-05 | PROVERBS $400: "When one door shuts" this happens another one opens (another opens) |
| #2745, aired 1996-07-05 | PROVERBS $600: "Step after step the ladder is ascended" & this is how "the goose is plucked" feather by feather |
| #2745, aired 1996-07-05 | PROVERBS $800: "There's many a slip 'twixt", these 2 things the cup and the lip |
| #2745, aired 1996-07-05 | PROVERBS $1000: "See" one of these "and let it lie, you'll want" one "before you die" a penny (a pin) |
| #2718, aired 1996-05-29 | BIBLICAL ZOO $500: Proverbs 30:25 says these insects "are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer" ants |
| #2707, aired 1996-05-14 | PROVERBS $200: A word to" them "is enough" the wise |
| #2707, aired 1996-05-14 | PROVERBS $400: "Where there's a will, there's" this a way |
| #2707, aired 1996-05-14 | PROVERBS $600: "None so" this "as those who will not see" blind |
| #2707, aired 1996-05-14 | PROVERBS $800: "Don't wash your" this "in public" dirty laundry |
| #2707, aired 1996-05-14 | PROVERBS $1000: "Never" do this "of the dead" speak ill |
| #2665, aired 1996-03-15 | PROVERBS $100: "Don't swap" these animals "in midstream" horses |
| #2665, aired 1996-03-15 | PROVERBS $200: This creature "wins the race while the hare is sleeping" the tortoise |
| #2665, aired 1996-03-15 | PROVERBS $300: "Man proposes," he "disposes" God |
| #2665, aired 1996-03-15 | PROVERBS $400: "The nearer" this, "the sweeter the flesh" the bone |
| #2665, aired 1996-03-15 | PROVERBS $500: This "is blind" but "a pennyweight of" it "is worth a pound of law" love |
| #2657, aired 1996-03-05 | BIBLE QUOTATIONS $100: Proverbs says, "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before" this a fall |
| #2644, aired 1996-02-15 | PROVERBS $100: It's what "you cannot teach an old dog" new tricks |
| #2644, aired 1996-02-15 | PROVERBS $200: It "gathers no moss" a rolling stone |
| #2644, aired 1996-02-15 | PROVERBS $300: Completes the proverb "cold hands,..." a warm heart |
| #2644, aired 1996-02-15 | PROVERBS $400: It's what "The road to hell is paved with" good intentions |
| #2644, aired 1996-02-15 | PROVERBS $500: An old variation of this proverb said, "The dashe of a pen, is more greeuous then the counter use of a launce" the pen is mightier than the sword |
| #2616, aired 1996-01-08 | PROVERBS $100: "Health is better than" this rhyming word wealth |
| #2616, aired 1996-01-08 | PROVERBS $200: A proverb about the generation gap says, "The old" one of these animals "thinks she was never a calf" a cow |
| #2616, aired 1996-01-08 | PROVERBS $300: In his 16th century book of proverbs, John Heywood wrote, "When" this "shineth, make hay" the sun |
| #2616, aired 1996-01-08 | PROVERBS $400: "Don't" do this "until you come to it" cross the bridge |
| #2616, aired 1996-01-08 | PROVERBS $500: Pliny the elder said, "There is always something new out of" this continent; Isak Dinesen would agree Africa |
| #2610, aired 1995-12-29 | PROVERBS $100: "Haste makes" this waste |
| #2610, aired 1995-12-29 | PROVERBS $200: "Poor Richard's Almanack" said this animal "in gloves catches no mice" a cat |
| #2610, aired 1995-12-29 | PROVERBS $300: This food is "the staff of life" bread |
| #2610, aired 1995-12-29 | PROVERBS $400: A rhyming proverb tells us "A swarm of bees in" this month "is worth a load of hay" May |
| #2610, aired 1995-12-29 | PROVERBS $500: A proverb has been defined as "The wisdom of many and the wit of" this many one |
| #2569, aired 1995-11-02 | PROVERBS $100: Not only is this "mightier than the sword", it's "more dangerous than a lion's paw" the pen |
| #2569, aired 1995-11-02 | PROVERBS $200: "The spirit is" this "but the flesh is weak" willing |
| #2569, aired 1995-11-02 | PROVERBS $300: "A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf" one of these a deaf husband |
| #2569, aired 1995-11-02 | PROVERBS $400: "A clean glove often hides a dirty" one of these a hand |
| #2569, aired 1995-11-02 | PROVERBS $500: Completes the modern proverb "Garbage in,..." garbage out |
| #2542, aired 1995-09-26 | PROVERBS $100: "Experience is the mother of wisdom" & this "is the mother of of invention" necessity |
| #2542, aired 1995-09-26 | PROVERBS $200: It's advised that you "Don't go near the water until you learn" this how to swim |
| #2542, aired 1995-09-26 | PROVERBS $300: Do this "in haste, and repent at leisure" marry |
| #2542, aired 1995-09-26 | PROVERBS $400: It's "no stronger than its weakest link" a chain |
| #2542, aired 1995-09-26 | PROVERBS $500: It's been called "the only universal tongue", "the speech of angels" & "the eye of the ear" music |
| #2534, aired 1995-09-14 | QUOTATIONS $100: John Ray's 1670 book of English proverbs told us, "If wishes were horses", these people "might ride" beggars |
| #2527, aired 1995-09-05 | PROVERBS $100: "Straws show which way" this "blows" the wind |
| #2527, aired 1995-09-05 | PROVERBS $200: "Might makes" this right |
| #2527, aired 1995-09-05 | PROVERBS $300: According to Kipling, "The female of the species is more" this "than the male" deadly |
| #2527, aired 1995-09-05 | PROVERBS $400: A Latin proverb says "In vino" this veritas |
| #2527, aired 1995-09-05 | PROVERBS $500: "Iron not used soon" does this rusts |
| #2515, aired 1995-07-07 | PROVERBS $100: It's the 4-letter word that "makes the world go round" love |
| #2515, aired 1995-07-07 | PROVERBS $200: There's "no time like" this the present |
| #2515, aired 1995-07-07 | PROVERBS $300: It's the type of pot that "never boils" a watched pot |
| #2515, aired 1995-07-07 | PROVERBS $400: It "comes not alone" & "makes waste" haste |
| #2515, aired 1995-07-07 | PROVERBS $500: "Every" one of these "fits not every foot" a shoe |
| #2505, aired 1995-06-23 | OLD TESTAMENT $400: One purpose of this book, a collection of sayings, is to give "subtlety to the simple" Proverbs |
| #2459, aired 1995-04-20 | PROVERBS $100: "If you can't" do this to them, "join 'em" beat 'em |
| #2459, aired 1995-04-20 | PROVERBS $200: "The best throw of" these gambling implements "is to throw them away" dice |
| #2459, aired 1995-04-20 | PROVERBS $300: "Have but few" of these "though many acquaintances" friends |
| #2459, aired 1995-04-20 | PROVERBS $400: "The buyer needs a hundred eyes," this person "but one" the seller |
| #2459, aired 1995-04-20 | PROVERBS $500: "He that will not have peace, God gives him" this war |
| #2446, aired 1995-04-03 | PROVERBS $100: "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man" these 3 things healthy, wealthy & wise |
| #2446, aired 1995-04-03 | PROVERBS $200: It completes the proverb "Never put off till tomorrow..." what you can do today |
| #2446, aired 1995-04-03 | PROVERBS $300: As well as "a virtue", it's also "The key of paradise" patience |
| #2446, aired 1995-04-03 | PROVERBS $400: It is said that "Man learns little from success, but much from" this failure |
| #2446, aired 1995-04-03 | PROVERBS $500: It's worth "a pound of cure" an ounce of prevention |
| #2335, aired 1994-10-28 | PROVERBS $200: "Idleness is the root of all evil" & so is "the love of" this money |
| #2335, aired 1994-10-28 | PROVERBS $400: "The more cooks the worse potage" is a variation of this proverb "too many cooks spoil the broth" |
| #2335, aired 1994-10-28 | PROVERBS $600: Margaret Mitchell ended "Gone with the Wind" with this proverb tomorrow is another day |
| #2335, aired 1994-10-28 | PROVERBS $800: According to a modern-day proverb, it's the age at which "life begins" life begins at 40 |
| #2335, aired 1994-10-28 | PROVERBS $1000: "Go abroad and you'll hear news of" this home |
| #2296, aired 1994-09-05 | PROVERBS $100: "Actions speak louder than" these words |
| #2296, aired 1994-09-05 | PROVERBS $200: The 2 things that "make Jack a dull boy" all work and no play |
| #2296, aired 1994-09-05 | PROVERBS $300: "Home is where the heart is" & "a man's home is" this his castle |
| #2296, aired 1994-09-05 | PROVERBS $400: According to a proverb, it's what you should do with "well enough" leave it alone |
| #2296, aired 1994-09-05 | PROVERBS $500: A choice for some anglers might be to "fish or" do this cut bait |
| #2239, aired 1994-05-05 | PROVERBS $100: "You can't judge a book by its binding", nor by this its cover |
| #2239, aired 1994-05-05 | PROVERBS $200: It's long been said, "If you want peace, you must prepare" for this war |
| #2239, aired 1994-05-05 | PROVERBS $300: An African proverb says, "Leave a log in the water as long as you like, it will never be" this reptile a crocodile |
| #2239, aired 1994-05-05 | PROVERBS $400: Completes the proverb "The spirit is willing, but..." the flesh is weak |
| #2239, aired 1994-05-05 | PROVERBS $500: "No rose without a thorn" & "no garden without" these weeds |
| #2227, aired 1994-04-19 | BIBLE BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: He didn't write them all, but he was the principal contributor to the Book of Proverbs Solomon |
| #2114, aired 1993-11-11 | PROVERBS $100: This "is thicker than water" blood |
| #2114, aired 1993-11-11 | PROVERBS $200: "Honesty is the best" this policy |
| #2114, aired 1993-11-11 | PROVERBS $300: "A heavy purse makes a light" one of these organs a heart |
| #2114, aired 1993-11-11 | PROVERBS $400: According to Alexander Pope, "Hope" does this "in the human breast" "springs eternal" |
| #2114, aired 1993-11-11 | PROVERBS $500: One variation of a 16th c. proverb says these creatures "and guests smell after three days" fish |
| #2110, aired 1993-11-05 | PROVERBS $100: This "is endless, restless and useless" & it "killed the cat" curiosity |
| #2110, aired 1993-11-05 | PROVERBS $200: This may be "the best policy" but it's also "praised and starves" honesty |
| #2110, aired 1993-11-05 | PROVERBS $300: This "seldom knocks twice" opportunity |
| #2110, aired 1993-11-05 | PROVERBS $400: A rhyming proverb says "care brings gray" this hair |
| #2110, aired 1993-11-05 | PROVERBS $500: This "grease gives the best polish" elbow |
| #2020, aired 1993-05-21 | PROVERBS $100: "All things come to him who" does this waits |
| #2020, aired 1993-05-21 | PROVERBS $200: This type of "fruit is sweet" or "sweetest" forbidden |
| #2020, aired 1993-05-21 | PROVERBS $300: In "The Tempest", Shakespeare wrote, "Misery acquaints a man with strange" ones of these bedfellows |
| #2020, aired 1993-05-21 | PROVERBS $400: On this holiday "all the birds of the air in couples do join" Valentine's Day |
| #2020, aired 1993-05-21 | PROVERBS $500: According to Ovid, "To be loved" you have to be this lovable |
| #1927, aired 1993-01-12 | PROVERBS $100: "Keep your mouth shut" & these "open" your eyes |
| #1927, aired 1993-01-12 | PROVERBS $200: You'll find "no rose without" one of these a thorn |
| #1927, aired 1993-01-12 | PROVERBS $300: "Faint heart never won" one of these a fair maid (fair lady, fair maiden) |
| #1927, aired 1993-01-12 | PROVERBS $400: It's this kind of "dust" that "blinds all eyes" gold dust |
| #1927, aired 1993-01-12 | PROVERBS $500: "The last" one of these "makes the cup run over" a drop |
| #1876, aired 1992-11-02 | WORDS OF LOVE $500: In Proverbs, in prose, Goethe wrote, "What is demanded of genius is love of" this truth |
| #1870, aired 1992-10-23 | THE BIBLE $1,500 (Daily Double): Book whose sayings are "To give subtlety to the simple, To the young man, knowledge & discretion" Proverbs |
| #1779, aired 1992-04-30 | BIBLICAL QUOTES $300: Proverbs says, it "goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall" pride |
| #1775, aired 1992-04-24 | PROVERBS $200: In a William Congreve proverb, this "has charms to soothe a savage breast" music |
| #1775, aired 1992-04-24 | PROVERBS $400: "One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey than 20 pounds of" this vinegar |
| #1775, aired 1992-04-24 | PROVERBS $600: It precedes "Weep, and you weep alone" Laugh, and the world laughs with you |
| #1775, aired 1992-04-24 | PROVERBS $800: This happens "when poverty comes in at the door" love flies out the window |
| #1775, aired 1992-04-24 | PROVERBS $1000: "It is to be envied than" this pitied |
| #1703, aired 1992-01-15 | PROVERBS $100: "When the cat's away" this happens the mice will play |
| #1703, aired 1992-01-15 | PROVERBS $200: It's "The better part of valor" discretion |
| #1703, aired 1992-01-15 | PROVERBS $400: It's derived from the Latin phrase "Manus manum lavat" One hand washes the other |
| #1703, aired 1992-01-15 | PROVERBS $500 (Daily Double): Proverbial title of the following old standard: "The Best Things In Life Are Free" |
| #1703, aired 1992-01-15 | PROVERBS $500: It's often said that "Faint heart never won" this fair maiden (or fair lady) |
| #1696, aired 1992-01-06 | OLD TESTAMENT $200: According to I Kings 4:32, this wise ruler was responsible for 3,000 proverbs & 1,005 songs Solomon |
| #1690, aired 1991-12-27 | COLONIAL AMERICA $600: The first book printed in Colonial America was a book of these from the Bible psalms |
| #1674, aired 1991-12-05 | PROVERBS $200: "Don't cut off your nose to" do this spite your face |
| #1674, aired 1991-12-05 | PROVERBS $400: They "are the devil's books" & if you're "lucky at" them you're "unlucky in love" cards |
| #1674, aired 1991-12-05 | PROVERBS $600: "A drowning man will clutch at" one of these a straw |
| #1674, aired 1991-12-05 | PROVERBS $800: "The more" of these, "the more offenders" laws |
| #1674, aired 1991-12-05 | PROVERBS $1000: This Latin proverb can be translated as "In wine there is truth" In vino veritas |
| #1668, aired 1991-11-27 | PROVERBS $100: A Chinese proverb tells us, "A hasty man drinks" this steeped beverage "with a fork" tea |
| #1668, aired 1991-11-27 | PROVERBS $200: This can be "bliss", or "the night of the mind" ignorance |
| #1668, aired 1991-11-27 | PROVERBS $300: "God made the earth but" these people "made Holland" the Dutch |
| #1668, aired 1991-11-27 | PROVERBS $400: "Never marry for" this, "Ye'll borrow it cheaper" money |
| #1668, aired 1991-11-27 | PROVERBS $500: This "mother of invention" "and opportunity may make a coward valiant" necessity |
| #1595, aired 1991-07-05 | WORDS OF WISDOM $800: The book of Proverbs says "Go to" this insect, "thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise" the ant |
| #1563, aired 1991-05-22 | MOTHERHOOD $500: It finishes the quote from the book of Proverbs, "Despise not thy mother when she is..." old |
| #1562, aired 1991-05-21 | PROVERBS $100: "It's a silly" one of these "that is caught with the same bait twice" a fish |
| #1562, aired 1991-05-21 | PROVERBS $200: Edward Young said, "Procrastination is the thief of" this time |
| #1562, aired 1991-05-21 | PROVERBS $300: "Lucky at cards, unlucky in" this love |
| #1562, aired 1991-05-21 | PROVERBS $400: This many "feet of earth make all men equal" six feet |
| #1562, aired 1991-05-21 | PROVERBS $500: "He gets a double victory, who conquers" this person himself |
| #1560, aired 1991-05-17 | PROVERBS $100: One source says it's "lies agreed upon" & most agree that it "repeats itself" history |
| #1560, aired 1991-05-17 | PROVERBS $200: “Every” one of these “has his day” a dog |
| #1560, aired 1991-05-17 | PROVERBS $300: They're the "those" that "heaven helps" those who help themselves |
| #1560, aired 1991-05-17 | PROVERBS $400: These "make fine birds" fine feathers |
| #1560, aired 1991-05-17 | PROVERBS $500: Do this “to live and don’t live to” do it eat |
| #1537, aired 1991-04-16 | PROVERBS $100: He that is his own one of these has a fool for a client a lawyer |
| #1537, aired 1991-04-16 | PROVERBS $200: Wanton kittens make sober these cats |
| #1537, aired 1991-04-16 | PROVERBS $300: This is half spent before we know what it is life |
| #1537, aired 1991-04-16 | PROVERBS $400: Do this in haste & repent at Reno marry |
| #1537, aired 1991-04-16 | PROVERBS $500: It is better to be born lucky than this rich |
| #1529, aired 1991-04-04 | PROVERBS $100: "He laughs best who laughs" this way last |
| #1529, aired 1991-04-04 | PROVERBS $200: In "The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing", Aesop warns that these "are often deceiving" appearances |
| #1529, aired 1991-04-04 | PROVERBS $300: Its what "Many hands make" short (light) work |
| #1529, aired 1991-04-04 | PROVERBS $400: According to the Bible, "The spirit indeed is willing but this" is weak the flesh |
| #1529, aired 1991-04-04 | PROVERBS $500: After retreating from Moscow in 1812, Napoleon noted, "There is only one step from the sublime to" this the ridiculous |
| #1523, aired 1991-03-27 | PROVERBS $100: According to the proverb, it's "next to godliness", though for some children, it's next to impossible cleanliness |
| #1523, aired 1991-03-27 | PROVERBS $200: A rhyming proverb states, "Plant" this fruit "for your heirs" pears |
| #1523, aired 1991-03-27 | PROVERBS $300: "At" this shape "table, there's no dispute of place" a round table |
| #1523, aired 1991-03-27 | PROVERBS $400: In a rhyme, "garlic makes a man wink, drink &" this stink |
| #1523, aired 1991-03-27 | PROVERBS $500: Jesus told his critics, "Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician," do this heal thyself |
| #1493, aired 1991-02-13 | FOOD PROVERBS $100: "It's no use crying over" this spilled milk |
| #1493, aired 1991-02-13 | FOOD PROVERBS $200: "The proof of" this "is in the eating" the pudding |
| #1493, aired 1991-02-13 | FOOD PROVERBS $300: One bad one "can spoil the whole barrel" an apple |
| #1493, aired 1991-02-13 | FOOD PROVERBS $400: "Honey catches more flies than" this vinegar |
| #1493, aired 1991-02-13 | FOOD PROVERBS $500: "You can't make" one of these "without breaking eggs" an omelet |
| #1482, aired 1991-01-29 | PROVERBS $200: It's what one good turn deserves another |
| #1482, aired 1991-01-29 | PROVERBS $400: They don't bite, they tell no tales & according to Steve Martin, they "Don't Wear Plaid" dead men |
| #1482, aired 1991-01-29 | PROVERBS $600: They that dance must pay the fiddler & he who pays the piper call this the tune |
| #1482, aired 1991-01-29 | PROVERBS $800: Type of craftsman originally alluded to in "strike while the iron is hot" a blacksmith |
| #1482, aired 1991-01-29 | PROVERBS $1000: As Alexander Pope put it, "Just as the twig is bent, the tree's" this inclined |
| #1458, aired 1990-12-26 | NUMBER, PLEASE $500: The book of Proverbs says, "Wisdom hath builded her house; she hath hewn out" this many "pillars" 7 |
| #1456, aired 1990-12-24 | BIBLICAL ZOO $600: Proverbs calls it the "strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any" a lion |
| #1426, aired 1990-11-12 | 17th CENTURY QUOTES $200: In his 1659 "Proverbs", James Howell wrote, "All work and no play makes Jack" this a dull boy |
| #1387, aired 1990-09-18 | PROVERBS $100: In "Hamlet" Polonius calls this "the soul of wit" brevity |
| #1387, aired 1990-09-18 | PROVERBS $200: "Rats desert" this a sinking ship |
| #1387, aired 1990-09-18 | PROVERBS $300: "He that would the daughter win must with" this woman "first begin" her mother |
| #1387, aired 1990-09-18 | PROVERBS $400: A modern corruption of this proverb is "Marry in haste and repent in the summer" Marry in haste and repent in leisure |
| #1387, aired 1990-09-18 | PROVERBS $500: He said "Fish and visitors smell in three days" Ben Franklin |
| #9, aired 1990-08-11 | PROVERBS $200: “East, west”, this “is best” home |
| #9, aired 1990-08-11 | PROVERBS $400: “The nearer” this, “the sweeter the flesh” the bone |
| #9, aired 1990-08-11 | PROVERBS $600: Alexander Pope's “Essay on Criticism” gave us this proverb on the recklessness of fools fools rush in where angels fear to tread |
| #9, aired 1990-08-11 | PROVERBS $800: One of these “is never known till needed” & one “to all is” one “to none” friend |
| #9, aired 1990-08-11 | PROVERBS $1000: “No man is” one of these “to his valet” hero |
| #1307, aired 1990-04-17 | PROVERBS $100: Completes the proverb "Living well is the best..." revenge |
| #1307, aired 1990-04-17 | PROVERBS $200: These "that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails." bees |
| #1307, aired 1990-04-17 | PROVERBS $300: "Better the foot slip than" this the tongue |
| #1307, aired 1990-04-17 | PROVERBS $400: "The mouse that has but one" of these "is quickly taken." a hole |
| #1307, aired 1990-04-17 | PROVERBS $500: Line that pairs with "See a pin and let it lie, you'll want a pin before you die." "See a pin and pick it up, and all the day you shall have good luck." |
| #1296, aired 1990-04-02 | PROVERBS $200: It "makes all men equal" & "makes the world go round" Love |
| #1296, aired 1990-04-02 | PROVERBS $400: He coined the saying, Early to bed & early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy & wise" Benjamin Franklin |
| #1296, aired 1990-04-02 | PROVERBS $600: They're the "Windows of the Soul" The Eyes |
| #1296, aired 1990-04-02 | PROVERBS $800: Proverb that was the title of a Kaufman/Hart play about an unconventional family "You Can't Take It With You" |
| #1296, aired 1990-04-02 | PROVERBS $2,700 (Daily Double): In a Thomas Gray poem this precedes " 'Tis folly to be wise" Where Ignorance Is Bliss |
| #1290, aired 1990-03-23 | THE BIBLE $500 (Daily Double): The first verse of the book of Proverbs attributes its authorship to this man Solomon |
| #1289, aired 1990-03-22 | PROVERBS $200: One proverb says, "6 hours" of this "for a man, 7 for a woman & 8 for a fool" sleep |
| #1289, aired 1990-03-22 | PROVERBS $400: William Congreve coined the oft-misquoted proverb, "Music has charms to soothe" a "savage" one breast |
| #1289, aired 1990-03-22 | PROVERBS $600: "Blessed is he who expects" this, "for he shall never be disappointed" nothing |
| #1289, aired 1990-03-22 | PROVERBS $800: "The hand that" does this "is the hand that rules the world" rocks the cradle |
| #1289, aired 1990-03-22 | PROVERBS $1000: "They that sow the wind shall reap" this the whirlwind |
| #1275, aired 1990-03-02 | PROVERBS $100: It "flees away without delay," "has wings" & "flies" time |
| #1275, aired 1990-03-02 | PROVERBS $200: It's "better than wealth" & it rhymes, too health |
| #1275, aired 1990-03-02 | PROVERBS $300: These "think alike" great minds |
| #1275, aired 1990-03-02 | PROVERBS $400: "You can't judge a book by its cover" because these "are deceptive" looks (appearances) |
| #1275, aired 1990-03-02 | PROVERBS $500: These "made in storms are forgotten in calms" vows (promises) |
| #1254, aired 1990-02-01 | PROVERBS $200: It completes the proverb "Laugh and the world laughs with you..." cry and you cry alone |
| #1254, aired 1990-02-01 | PROVERBS $400: An antique hand tool that could be a synonym for "proverb" Old saw |
| #1254, aired 1990-02-01 | PROVERBS $600: "A watched pot never" does this Boils |
| #1254, aired 1990-02-01 | PROVERBS $800: Chaucer's version of this proverb was "It is nought good a slepying hound to wake" Let sleeping dogs lie |
| #1254, aired 1990-02-01 | PROVERBS $1000: "Too many cooks spoil the broth" contradicts the saying "Many hands make" this Light work |
| #1202, aired 1989-11-21 | PROVERBS $100: According to the proverb, you should always do this "on the bright side" look |
| #1202, aired 1989-11-21 | PROVERBS $200: A proverb on appearances goes, "If the beard were all," this animal "might preach" a goat |
| #1202, aired 1989-11-21 | PROVERBS $300: "Every horse thinks its own pack" is this heaviest |
| #1202, aired 1989-11-21 | PROVERBS $400: "Once" this, "twice shy" bitten |
| #1202, aired 1989-11-21 | PROVERBS $500: A man in this occupation should "stick to his last" Shoemaker (or cobbler) |
| #1200, aired 1989-11-17 | PROVERBS $200: Every month Reader's Digest reminds us it's "the best medicine" Laughter |
| #1200, aired 1989-11-17 | PROVERBS $400: Samuel Johnson said, "When a man is tired of" this city, "he is tired of life" London |
| #1200, aired 1989-11-17 | PROVERBS $600: Over 400 years B.C. Thucydides wrote history tends to do this "Repeat Itself" |
| #1200, aired 1989-11-17 | PROVERBS $800: Jesus taught, "Greater love hath no man than" this "That he would lay down his life for his brother/friends" |
| #1200, aired 1989-11-17 | PROVERBS $2,000 (Daily Double): "In the country of the blind," this "man is king" The Man With One Eye |
| #1184, aired 1989-10-26 | PROVERBS $100: As Robert Wagner could tell you, one must "set a thief to" do this to catch a thief |
| #1184, aired 1989-10-26 | PROVERBS $200: "Out of sight, out of" this mind |
| #1184, aired 1989-10-26 | PROVERBS $300: "Curses, like", these, "come home to roost" chickens |
| #1184, aired 1989-10-26 | PROVERBS $400: They are "poor men's riches" but should be "seen and not heard" children |
| #1184, aired 1989-10-26 | PROVERBS $500: "Hope for the best" but do this prepare for the worst |
| #1144, aired 1989-07-20 | PROVERBS $100: As you do this "so you must lie on it", which is hard to do if you think about it "As you make your bed" |
| #1144, aired 1989-07-20 | PROVERBS $200: "There is a remedy for all things but" this death |
| #1144, aired 1989-07-20 | PROVERBS $300: "Gold goes in any gate, except" this one the pearly gate (Heaven's gate) |
| #1144, aired 1989-07-20 | PROVERBS $400: According to Dickens, these will happen even in "the best-regulated families" accidents |
| #1144, aired 1989-07-20 | PROVERBS $500: In "Lady Clara Vere de Vere", Tennyson wrote, "Kind hearts are more than" these coronets |
| #1091, aired 1989-05-08 | FAMOUS QUOTES $1000: Proverbs 16:18 says, "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before" one of these a fall |
| #1028, aired 1989-02-08 | PROVERBS $200: A variation of this proverb says "Rats desert a falling house" rats always desert a sinking ship |
| #1028, aired 1989-02-08 | PROVERBS $400: According to the proverb of war, "He who lives by" this "shall die by" this the sword |
| #1028, aired 1989-02-08 | PROVERBS $600: It's what happens if you lie down with dogs you'll get up with fleas |
| #1028, aired 1989-02-08 | PROVERBS $800: In "Solitude" Ella Wheeler Wilcox followed this line with "Weep, and you weep alone" Laugh, and the world laughs with you |
| #1028, aired 1989-02-08 | PROVERBS $1000: "The nearer the bone, the sweeter" this the meat |
| #982, aired 1988-12-06 | POTPOURRI $500: Original source of the proverbs "Lost time is never found again" & "Little strokes fell great oaks" Poor Richard's Almanack |
| #925, aired 1988-09-16 | PROVERBS $200: It is this "that blows nobody any good" an ill wind |
| #925, aired 1988-09-16 | PROVERBS $400: "East or west", this "is best" home |
| #925, aired 1988-09-16 | PROVERBS $600: In his collection "Hesperides", Robert Herrick advised to do this "while ye may" gather ye rosebuds |
| #925, aired 1988-09-16 | PROVERBS $800: Proverbial phrase that precedes "... so is the tree inclined" as the twig is bent |
| #925, aired 1988-09-16 | PROVERBS $1000: 1st half of proverb that ends "... & God for us all" every man for himself |
| #899, aired 1988-06-30 | PROVERBS $100: "He that makes himself" one of these "shall be eaten by the wolf" sheep |
| #899, aired 1988-06-30 | PROVERBS $200: Do this "in haste & repent at leisure" marry |
| #899, aired 1988-06-30 | PROVERBS $300: It's "not steel, yet it cuts"; it's "a woman's sword & she does not let it rust" her tongue |
| #899, aired 1988-06-30 | PROVERBS $400: According to the proverb on perserverance, it's how "the goose is plucked" one feather at a time (feather by feather) |
| #899, aired 1988-06-30 | PROVERBS $500: In the rhyming proverb "What can't be" this, "must be endured" cured |
| #872, aired 1988-05-24 | PROVERBS $100: "A stitch in time..." does this saves nine |
| #872, aired 1988-05-24 | PROVERBS $200: Completes Jesus' words to Peter, "The spirit indeed is willing..." but the flesh is weak |
| #872, aired 1988-05-24 | PROVERBS $300: "Man may work from sun to sun, but..." this is also true a woman's work is never done |
| #872, aired 1988-05-24 | PROVERBS $500 (Daily Double): Proverbial title of the following, a number 1 hit in 1963:
"My friends all tell me /
Go to him, run to him /
Say sweet lovely things to him /
And tell him, he's the one /
Deep in my heart I know it /
But it's so hard to show it /
Cause it's easier, easier said than done /
My buddies tell me..." "Easier Said Than Done" |
| #872, aired 1988-05-24 | PROVERBS $500: Completes the proverb, "Money, like manure, does no good till it is..." this spread |
| #853, aired 1988-04-27 | PROVERBS $100: "Live not to eat, but..." do this instead eat to live |
| #853, aired 1988-04-27 | PROVERBS $200: We found one source that said these "make the man" & one that said they "do not make the man" clothes |
| #853, aired 1988-04-27 | PROVERBS $300: "Gold goes in at any gate except" this one, as Michael Cimino probably knows, now heaven's |
| #853, aired 1988-04-27 | PROVERBS $400: "He that will thrive must rise at five, he that's thriven may lie till" this time seven |
| #853, aired 1988-04-27 | PROVERBS $500: It's the bough you're not supposed to cut the one you're standing on |
| #814, aired 1988-03-03 | MORE PROVERBS OF DEATH $200: It's "another man's poison" one man's meat |
| #814, aired 1988-03-03 | MORE PROVERBS OF DEATH $400: "As a man" does this, "so shall he die" lives |
| #814, aired 1988-03-03 | MORE PROVERBS OF DEATH $600: It's "death's feast", & "there has never been a good" one war |
| #814, aired 1988-03-03 | MORE PROVERBS OF DEATH $800: According to Job, "There the wicked cease from troubling & there the weary be at rest" the grave |
| #814, aired 1988-03-03 | MORE PROVERBS OF DEATH $1000: In Greek mythology, he "waits for all," & you won't need your Dramamine Charon |
| #804, aired 1988-02-18 | PROVERBS $200: Your aerobics instructor might tell you "No pain, no..." this gain |
| #804, aired 1988-02-18 | PROVERBS $400: "If you want a thing well done", the proverb states, this is what you should do do it yourself |
| #804, aired 1988-02-18 | PROVERBS $600: You can't tell a book by its cover, or judge a tree by this its bark |
| #804, aired 1988-02-18 | PROVERBS $1000: Proverbially, it's the right time to "make hay" when the sun shines |
| #804, aired 1988-02-18 | PROVERBS $2,000 (Daily Double): According to Ben Franklin "We must all hang together or" this will happen we shall all hang separately |
| #791, aired 1988-02-01 | PROVERBS $200: Proverb on absence that concludes "...out of mind" "Out of sight..." |
| #791, aired 1988-02-01 | PROVERBS $400: Stockholders might "know a man by" this that "he keeps" "the company" |
| #791, aired 1988-02-01 | PROVERBS $600: "A shut mouth" catches none of these & neither will "vinegar" "flies" |
| #791, aired 1988-02-01 | PROVERBS $800: Concerning hereditary influences, a proverb states "The apple never..." does this "...falls far from the tree" |
| #791, aired 1988-02-01 | PROVERBS $1000: One variation puts it "A sword less hurt does than..." one of these "a pen" |
| #749, aired 1987-12-03 | PROVERBS $100: They can never "be bankrupt" or "be choosers" beggars |
| #749, aired 1987-12-03 | PROVERBS $200: Completes the proverb, "Set a thief..." to catch a thief |
| #749, aired 1987-12-03 | PROVERBS $300: Jesus advised "When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know..." this what your right hand is doing |
| #749, aired 1987-12-03 | PROVERBS $400: Devout cowards live by the proverb "He that fights & runs away, may..." do this fight again another day (live to right again another day) |
| #733, aired 1987-11-11 | PROVERBS $200: Though your dentist might have it on in the background, "it helps not the toothache" Muzak (or music or elevator music) |
| #733, aired 1987-11-11 | PROVERBS $400: Line in Matthew 7:7 which follows "Ask and it shall be given you" Seek and ye shall find |
| #733, aired 1987-11-11 | PROVERBS $600: Type of "grease that gives the best polish" elbow grease |
| #733, aired 1987-11-11 | PROVERBS $1000: "As evidence of skill, a good archer is not known by his arrows" but by this his aim |
| #733, aired 1987-11-11 | PROVERBS $2,300 (Daily Double): "He that has many of these" finds that some of them will cool irons in the fire |
| #703, aired 1987-09-30 | PROVERBS OF DEATH $200: According to the fable, "Kill not the goose that" does this lay the golden egg |
| #703, aired 1987-09-30 | PROVERBS OF DEATH $400: "Speak nothing but" this "of the dead" good |
| #703, aired 1987-09-30 | PROVERBS OF DEATH $600: A grave thought: This amount of earth "makes all men equal" 6 feet |
| #703, aired 1987-09-30 | PROVERBS OF DEATH $800: "Cowards die many times before their death; the valiant never taste death but once," he wrote William Shakespeare |
| #703, aired 1987-09-30 | PROVERBS OF DEATH $1000: Billy Joel turned this proverb of death into a Top 40 Hit in 1978 "Only the Good Die Young" |
| #670, aired 1987-07-03 | PROVERBS $200: It was said among the ancient Greeks, there is many a slip 'twixt the cup & this the lip |
| #670, aired 1987-07-03 | PROVERBS $400: What soon happens to "a fool & his money" they are soon parted |
| #670, aired 1987-07-03 | PROVERBS $600 (Daily Double): Proverbial title of the following song from 1967:
"Oh don't it hurt deep inside /
To see someone do something to her..." "Silence Is Golden" |
| #670, aired 1987-07-03 | PROVERBS $600: In Aesop, the rural "cousin" who said "Better beans & bacon in peace than cakes & ale in fear" the country mouse |
| #670, aired 1987-07-03 | PROVERBS $1000: Not to look a gift horse in the mouth, the Trojans ignored this warning which became a proverb, too Beware of Greeks bearing gifts |
| #663, aired 1987-06-24 | LITERARY GEMS $100: The Bible asks, "Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above" these red gems rubies |
| #559, aired 1987-01-29 | PROVERBS $100: We must learn to do this before we can run walk |
| #559, aired 1987-01-29 | PROVERBS $200: They "can't be choosers" beggars |
| #559, aired 1987-01-29 | PROVERBS $300: Translation of the Latin proverb "In vino veritas" In wine, truth |
| #559, aired 1987-01-29 | PROVERBS $400: "A woman's mind & winter wind" do this "oft" change |
| #559, aired 1987-01-29 | PROVERBS $500: On the indivisability of this, a proverb asks: "Why buy a cow when milk is so cheap?" getting married |
| #502, aired 1986-11-11 | PROVERBS OF DEATH $100: Separate proverbs state they "don't bite" & "tell no tales" dead men |
| #502, aired 1986-11-11 | PROVERBS OF DEATH $200: "Old habits die" this way hard |
| #502, aired 1986-11-11 | PROVERBS OF DEATH $300: "There are more ways to" do this "than choking it with cream" kill a cat |
| #502, aired 1986-11-11 | PROVERBS OF DEATH $400: Proverb from Matthew 8:22 implying that the living have better things to do Let the dead bury the dead. |
| #502, aired 1986-11-11 | PROVERBS OF DEATH $500: A soldier might say "Every" one of these "has its billet" a bullet |
| #500, aired 1986-11-07 | SHAKESPEAREAN PROVERBS $200: Julius Caesar said cowards do this "many times before their deaths" die |
| #500, aired 1986-11-07 | SHAKESPEAREAN PROVERBS $600: King Lear cursed, "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless" one a thankless child |
| #500, aired 1986-11-07 | SHAKESPEAREAN PROVERBS $800: In Henry IV, Pt. I Shakespeare described it as "the better part of valour" discretion |
| #500, aired 1986-11-07 | SHAKESPEAREAN PROVERBS $1000: In "12th Night" it's said, "Some are born great, some achieve greatness & some have greatness..." this way thrust upon them |
| #465, aired 1986-09-19 | PROVERBS $100: The place, according to this proverb, not "to change horses" in the middle of a stream |
| #465, aired 1986-09-19 | PROVERBS $200: It "is fair play" turnabout |
| #465, aired 1986-09-19 | PROVERBS $300: Especially on April 1st, "There's no fool like..." this an old fool |
| #465, aired 1986-09-19 | PROVERBS $400: Dromedarian equivalent to "The last drop makes the cup run over" the straw that broke the camel's back |
| #465, aired 1986-09-19 | PROVERBS $500: It "surpasses learning" "is the best buckler against affronts", & "is a virtue" patience |
| #396, aired 1986-03-17 | PROVERBS $100: According to 17th century writer John Ray, one is "never too old to" do this learn |
| #396, aired 1986-03-17 | PROVERBS $200: "The hand that" does this, "rules the world" rocks the cradle |
| #396, aired 1986-03-17 | PROVERBS $300: When wine comes in, this is said to come out the truth |
| #396, aired 1986-03-17 | PROVERBS $400: It's said, "A man always chases a woman until" this happens until she catches him |
| #396, aired 1986-03-17 | PROVERBS $500: According to the Bible a lazy man who doesn't want to go out to work will say there's 1 of these in the streets a lion |
| #358, aired 1986-01-22 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: Funk & Wagnalls says this Bible book of sayings was written for ancient "yuppies" Proverbs |
| #356, aired 1986-01-20 | PROVERBS $100: Many of these "make light work" hands |
| #356, aired 1986-01-20 | PROVERBS $200: While "treading" Watergate, John Mitchell said, "This happens when the going gets tough" the tough get going |
| #356, aired 1986-01-20 | PROVERBS $300: Several, including Dorothy Parker, have said "It's what women & elephants never" do forget |
| #356, aired 1986-01-20 | PROVERBS $400: In the original version, "you took an ell", or 45 inches, when "I gave you" this an inch |
| #356, aired 1986-01-20 | PROVERBS $500: Ben Franklin said you shouldn't "squander" this, "for that is the stuff life is made of" time |
| #340, aired 1985-12-27 | PROVERBS $100: When the cat's away, what the mice will do play |
| #340, aired 1985-12-27 | PROVERBS $200: As you make your bed, so must you do this lie in it |
| #340, aired 1985-12-27 | PROVERBS $300: Said Francis Bacon, "If the mountain will not come to Muhammed, Muhammed will" do this go to the mountain |
| #340, aired 1985-12-27 | PROVERBS $400: "Man proposes", but God does this disposes |
| #340, aired 1985-12-27 | PROVERBS $500: "A bad workman quarrels with" these his tools |
| #335, aired 1985-12-20 | METALS $200: John Heywood's "Proverbs" advises you to strike at this time while the iron is hot |
| #333, aired 1985-12-18 | PROVERBS $200: A variation of this is "4 eyes see more than 2" two heads are better than one |
| #333, aired 1985-12-18 | PROVERBS $400: A modern proverb says, "The opera isn't over till" she sings the fat lady |
| #333, aired 1985-12-18 | PROVERBS $600: Proverbially, "silence is golden", but this "is silver" speech |
| #333, aired 1985-12-18 | PROVERBS $800: Every hill has its valley, every tide has this ebb |
| #333, aired 1985-12-18 | PROVERBS $1000: This proverb refers to a former penalty for sheep stealing one might as well be hanged for stealing a sheep as a lamb |
| #283, aired 1985-10-09 | PROVERBS $100: The way to a man's heart is through this his stomach |
| #275, aired 1985-09-27 | PROVERBS $100: They're known to "desert a sinking ship" rats |
| #275, aired 1985-09-27 | PROVERBS $200: "He that fights & runs away may live" to do this to fight another day |
| #275, aired 1985-09-27 | PROVERBS $300: According to ancient think Appius Caecus, "Each man is the architect of" this his own destiny (fate) |
| #275, aired 1985-09-27 | PROVERBS $400: Ben Franklin wrote, "Some are weather-wise, some are" this otherwise |
| #275, aired 1985-09-27 | PROVERBS $500: 2 word self-help proverb found in temple of the Oracle at Delphi Know thyself |
| #186, aired 1985-05-27 | PROVERBS $200: What George Washington wouldn't let his sleeping dogs do lie |
| #186, aired 1985-05-27 | PROVERBS $400: For a peaceful world, the Bible urges men to "beat their swords" into these plowshares |
| #186, aired 1985-05-27 | PROVERBS $600: "Age-ist" proverb of the '60s "don't trust anyone over 30" |
| #186, aired 1985-05-27 | PROVERBS $1,100 (Daily Double): A well-rounded person who lacks special expertise can proverbially be called this jack of all trades, master of none |
| #158, aired 1985-04-17 | PROVERBS $200: An idle mind is said to be his workshop the devil |
| #158, aired 1985-04-17 | PROVERBS $400: What "He that troubles his own house will inherit" the wind |
| #158, aired 1985-04-17 | PROVERBS $600: According to many, "The only place where success comes before work" is in this book the dictionary |
| #158, aired 1985-04-17 | PROVERBS $800: Columnist Walter Morrow's "Economics in Eight Words" says, "There's no such thing as" this a free lunch |
| #158, aired 1985-04-17 | PROVERBS $1000: It's "how the tree inclines" the twig is bent |
| #112, aired 1985-02-12 | PROVERBS $100: "Familiarity breeds" it contempt |
| #112, aired 1985-02-12 | PROVERBS $200: Part of anatomy a hard worker "puts to the wheel" shoulder |
| #112, aired 1985-02-12 | PROVERBS $300: Ben Franklin advised us to "eat to live" rather than this live to eat |
| #112, aired 1985-02-12 | PROVERBS $400: When "poverty comes in the window", this "flies out the door" love |
| #112, aired 1985-02-12 | PROVERBS $500: Jesus Christ advised us not to put our lighted candles there under a bushel |
| #72, aired 1984-12-18 | PROVERBS $200: Crimson-coated riders who "always get their man" the Mounties (the Royal Canadian Mounted Police) |
| #72, aired 1984-12-18 | PROVERBS $400: What too many cooks can do spoil the broth |
| #72, aired 1984-12-18 | PROVERBS $600: Smart farmers make hay then while the sun shines |
| #72, aired 1984-12-18 | PROVERBS $800: Ben Franklin wrote that "3 can keep a secret if 2 are" this dead |
| #72, aired 1984-12-18 | PROVERBS $1000: What little strokes fell giant oak trees (big oaks) |
| #55, aired 1984-11-23 | PROVERBS $200: They flock together birds of a feather |
| #55, aired 1984-11-23 | PROVERBS $400: A single decomposed Granny Smith destroys the entire keg one bad apple spoils the whole bunch |
| #55, aired 1984-11-23 | PROVERBS $600: The worth of an ounce of prevention a pound of cure |
| #55, aired 1984-11-23 | PROVERBS $800: Only Shakespeare play title that's a proverb All's Well That Ends Well |
| #55, aired 1984-11-23 | PROVERBS $1000: Proverb that was changed for title of '73 Bond film live and let live |
| #16, aired 1984-10-01 | PROVERBS $400: According to Harry Truman, what you should do "if you can't stand the heat" get out of the kitchen |
| #16, aired 1984-10-01 | PROVERBS $600: It's better "than not to have loved at all" to have loved and lost |
| #16, aired 1984-10-01 | PROVERBS $800: Lord Acton said it "tends to corrupt" (absolute) power |
| #16, aired 1984-10-01 | PROVERBS $1000: Santayana said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to" do this repeat history |
