Quiz sheet
Can you find the words which are missing from the following
proverbs and quotations? Identify the words and you have
the clues to fit into the peace circle!
The words you have to match are: Beauty, Body, Compassion,
Co-operation, Culture, Economy, Emotions, Environment, Patience,
Harmony, Health, Individual, Information, Joy, Justice,
Knowledge, Life, Love, Mind, Respect, Social life, Society,
Solidarity, Substance, Truth, Welfare and Wisdom.
Area 1. Experience is the mother of -------------.
Area 2.
a) Where there is --------there is no darkness. (Burundi
Proverb)
b) ---------- and perseverance have a magical effect before
which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. (John
Quincy Adams)
c) Man may dismiss ------------from his heart, but God
never will. (William Cowper)
d) Don't promise something when you are full of --------;
don't answer letters when you are full of anger. (Chinese
Proverb)
Area 3. --------- is better than wealth.
Area 4. Doubt is the key to ----------. (Iranian
Proverb)
Area 5. If you want to be respected, you must -----------yourself.
(Spanish Proverb)
Area 6. To touch the earth is to have -------------with
nature. (Oglala Sioux. Native American)
Area 7. For the sake of others' --------, however
great, let not one neglect one's own ---------; clearly
perceiving one's own -----------, let one be intent on one's
own goal. (Buddhist proverb)
Area 8. Government and --------------are in all
things the law of life; anarchy and competition the laws
of death. (John Ruskin)
Area 9.
a) ----------without wisdom is like a flower in the mud.
(Romanian Proverb)
b) Sooner or later the ---------comes to light. (Dutch
Proverb)
c) ---------- forever, ---------forever, -------- forever.
For the union makes us strong. (Ralph Chaplin)
d) When violence comes into the house, law and --------
leave through the chimney. (Turkish Proverb)
Area 10. -------- of the mind must be subservient
to the heart. (Mahatma Gandhi)
Area 11. See ----------and glee sit down, / All
joyous and unthinking, / Till, quite transmogrified, they're
grown / Debauchery and drinking. (Robert Burns, 1759-1796).
Area 12. There can be -------- where there is no
efficiency. (Beaconsfield)
Area 13. Be not deceived with the first appearance
of things, for show is not--------. (English Proverb)
Area 14. A moment of patience can prevent a great
disaster and a moment of impatience can ruin a whole--------.
(Chinese Proverb)
Area 15. Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in--------. (T.S. Eliot)
Area 16. Easier to bend the -------- than the will.
(Chinese Proverb)
Area 17. By starving -------- we become humourless,
rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal,
reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume
life; discouraged, they poison it. (Joseph Collins)
Area 18. See with your--------, hear with your
heart. (Kurdish Proverb)
Area 19. Man shapes himself through decision that
shapes his--------. (Rene Dubos)
Area 20. Every heart is the other heart. Every
soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The
-------- is the one illusion. (Margaurite Young)
Area 21. You can tell how high a -------- is by
how much of its garbage is recycled. (Tahanie) |