Newburgh Enlarged City School District Mini - Lessons for Task IV
"PROVERBS "

Mini-Lesson

1. Birds of a feather flock together.
2. It takes two to tango.
3. A man is known by the company he keeps.
4. There’s no place like home.
5. Two heads are better than one.
6. Do as I say, not as I do.
7. Look before you leap.
8. When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
9. Don’t bite off more than you can chew.
10. Don’t judge a book by its cover.
11. Don’t judge a man until you’ve walked in his boots.
12. The first step is always the hardest.
13. Necessity is the mother of invention.
14. Rome wasn’t built in a day.
15. Man does not live by bread alone.
16. You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.

These proverbs were taken from 101 American English Proverbs by Harry Collis, published in 1992 by Passport Books, a division of The National Textbook Company, Lincolnwood, Illinois. The book’s excellent illustrations by Mario Risso will aid comprehension if the teacher can male them available.