Tongue Twisters and Proverbs

1. "Ed's easily excited," excitedly exclaimed Edwina.
2. "Extra, Extra!" Exton exclaimed excitedly.
3. "Surely Sylvia swims!" shrieked Sammy, surprised.

            "Someone should show Sylvia some strokes so she shall not sink."

4. A bad beginning makes a bad ending
5. A big black bug bit a big black bear,
   made the big black bear bleed blood.
6. A big black bug bit a big black dog on his big black nose!
7. A bitter biting bittern
   Bit a better brother bittern,
   And the bitter better bittern
   Bit the bitter biter back.
   And the bitter bittern, bitten,
   By the better bitten bittern,
   Said: "I'm a bitter biter bit, alack!"
8. A bloke's back bike brake block broke.
9. A box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits, and a biscuit mixer.
10. A box of biscuits, a batch of mixed biscuits
11. A bully is always a coward
12. A burnt child dreads the fire
13. A cat has nine lives
14. A cat may look at a king
15. A child may have too much of his mother's blessing
16. A clean hand wants no washing.
17. A close mouth catches no flies.
18. A cock is valiant on its own hill.
19. A creaking door hangs long on its hinges.
20. A cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup. 
21. A fair face may hide a foul heart.
22. A fault confessed is half redressed
23. A flea and a fly flew up in a flue.
    Said the flea, "Let us fly!"
    Said the fly, "Let us flee!"
    So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
24. A fool and this money are soon parted
25. A fool at forty is a fool indeed
26. A fool may ask more questions than a wise man can answer
27. A fool's bolt is con shot
28. A gazillion gigantic grapes gushed
    gradually giving gophers gooey guts.
29. A gift in the hand is better than two promises
30. A good beginning is half the battle
31. A good beginning makes a good ending
32. A good dog deserves a good bone
33. A lusty lady loved a lawyer and longed to lure him from his laboratory.
34. A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.
35. A Tudor who tooted a flute tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
    Said the two to their tutor, "Is it harder to toot or to tutor two tooters to toot?"
36. A twister of twists once twisted a twist.
    and the twist that he twisted was a three twisted twist.
    now in twisting this twist, if a twist should untwist,
    would the twist that untwisted untwist the twists.
37.  Ailing Auntie Annie Ames ate apple butter in abundance.
38. Betty and Bob brought back blue balloons from the big bazaar.
39. Betty Botter, Betty Botter bought some butter. "But," she said, "the butter's bitter. If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter. But a bit of better butter, that would make my batter better."
40. Betty bought some butter,
    but the butter Betty bought was bitter,
    so Betty bought some better butter,
    and the better butter Betty bought
    was better than the bitter butter Betty bought before!
41. Betty loves the velvet vest best
42. Black bug bit a big black bear. But where is the big black bear that the big black bug bit?
43. Blake's black bike's back brake bracket block broke.
44. Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager
    imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?
45. Captain Kangaroo's carefully crunching crunchy candy corn.
46. Cheap ship trip.
47. Children, aunts are not glamorous
48. Chris crashes crimson cars quickly.
49. Chubby jugglers juggling oranges jovially.
50.  Clowns grow glowing crowns.
51. Double bubble gum bubbles double.
52. Each Easter Eddie eats eighty Easter eggs.
53. Freaky five fingered fouls’ fingers forever flicking freely.
54. Fresh fried fish,
    Fish fresh fried,
    Fried fish fresh,
    Fish fried fresh.
55. Funny Frank fell fifty feet.
56. Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear,
    Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair,
    Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't very fuzzy, was he?
57. George and Grace grew glossy grapes and grimy garlic gladly.
58. Give me the gift of a grip top sock:
    a drip-drape, ship-shape, tip-top sock.
59. Gray geese graze in the green, green grass.
60. Great gray goats
61. Greek grapes.
62. How many yaks could a yak pack pack if a yak pack could pack yaks?
63. How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a wooodchuck could chuck wood?
    A woodchuck could chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
64. I can think of six thin things, but I can think of six thick things too.
65. I rarely practice 'rarely' really really hard.
66. I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit, and on that slitted sheet I sit.
67. I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasn't the thought
    I thought I thought.
    If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought,
    I wouldn't have thought so much.
68. If a Hottentot taught a Hottentot tot
    To talk ere the tot could totter,
    Ought the Hottenton tot
    Be taught to say aught, or naught,
    Or what ought to be taught her?
    If to hoot and to toot a Hottentot tot
    Be taught by her Hottentot tutor,
    Ought the tutor get hot
    If the Hottentot tot
    Hoot and toot at her Hottentot tutor?
69. If a white chalk chalks on a black blackboard,
    Will a black chalk chalk on a white blackboard?
70. If one doctor doctors another doctor, does the doctor
    who doctors the doctor doctor the doctor the way the
    doctor he is doctoring doctors? Or does he doctor
    the doctor the way the doctor who doctors doctors?
71. If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch?
72. If you stick a stock of liquor in your locker,
    It's slick to stick a lock upon your stock,
    Or some stickler who is slicker
    Will stick you of your liquor
    If you fail to lock your liquor
    With a lock!
73. I'm not the fig plucker,
    nor the fig pluckers' son,
    but I'll pluck figs
    Till the fig plucker comes.
74. Jackie's jumping jovially 'round Jakarta.
75. Kindly kittens knitting mittens keep kazooing in the king's kitchen.
76. King Kong kissed Queen Kate.
77. King Thistle stuck a thousand thistles in the thistle of his thumb.
    A thousand thistles King Thistle stuck in the thistle of his thumb.
    If King Thistle stuck a thousand thistles in the thistle of his thumb,
    How many thistles did King Thistle stick in the thistle of his thumb?
78. Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better.
79. Might might make right.
80. Miss Smith's fish-sauce shop seldom sells shellfish.
81. Momma made me mash my M & M's.
82. Moose noshing much mush.
83. Mrs Hunt had a country cut front in the front of her country cut pettycoat.
84. Never trouble about trouble until trouble troubles you!
85. Nine nervous Nuns in an Indiana Nunnery.
86. Nine new noisy, nosy, annoying neighbors
87. Not these things here but those things there.
88. Of all the felt I ever felt,
    I never felt a piece of felt
    which felt as fine as that felt felt,
    when first I felt that felt hat's felt.
89. One black beetle bled only black blood, the other black beetle bled blue.
90.  One smart man, he felt smart.
    Two smart men, they both felt smart.
    Three smart men, they all felt smart.
91. One-One was a racehorse.
    Two-Two was one, too.
    When One-One won one race,
    Two-Two won one, too.
92. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
    A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
    If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
    Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
93. Plead Lee's pleas for peas, please!
94. Poppa, Poppa picked a pot of peas.
95. Pretty Kitty Creighton had a cotton batten cat.
    The cotton batten cat was bitten by a rat.
    The kitten that was bitten had a button for an eye,
    And biting off the button made the cotton batten fly.
96. Quaint queens can't quarrel crazily.
97. Raleigh, are you already ready?
    Are you really ready, Raleigh?
    Raleigh's really ready, Riley.
    Riley, Raleigh's already ready!
98. Really leery, rarely Larry.
99. Red leather, yellow leather, red leather, yellow leather.
100. Richard's wretched ratchet wrench.
101. Ripe white wheat reapers reap ripe white wheat right.
102. Room Three Hundred Thirty-Three on the third floor rents for $33.33 every third Thursday.
103. Round the rugged rock, the ragged rascal ran.
104. Rubber baby buggy bumpers,
     Rubber baby buggy bumpers,
     Rubber baby buggy bumpers (submitted by Valerie Brown-Wood)
105. Rubber baby buggy bumpers.
106. Ruth and Luther's moose's loosest tooth is uncouth.
107. Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore. But if Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore then where are the sea shells Sally sells?
108. Say this sharply, say this sweetly,
     Say this shortly, say this softly.
     Say this sixteen times in succession.
109. She sees seas slapping shores.
110. She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
111.  She slits the sheet she sits on.
112. Silly Sally swiftly shooed seven silly sheep.
     The seven silly sheep Silly Sally shooed shilly-shallied south.
     These sheep shouldn't sleep in a shack; sheep should sleep in a shed.
113. Sister Suzie sewing shirts for soldiers
     Such skill as sewing shirts
     Our shy young sister Suzie shows
     Some soldiers send epistles
     Say they'd rather sleep in thistles
     Than the saucy, soft short shirts for soldiers Sister Suzie sews.
114. Sister Suzie sewing shirts for soldiers
     Such skill at sewing shirts
     Our shy young sister Suzie shows
     Some soldiers send epistles
     Say they'd rather sleep in thistles
     Than the saucy, soft short shirts for soldiers Sister Suzie sews
115. Six sick sea-serpents swam the seven seas.
116. Six silver swans swam silently seaward.
117. Six stick shifts stuck shut.
118. Strict strong stringy Stephen Stretch
     slickly snared six sickly silky snakes.
119. Terrible, terrible Thomas Tatterton tied two twigs to two tall trees.
120.  The batter with the butter is the batter that is better!
121. The king would sing, about a ring that would go ding.
122. The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.
123. The soldier's shoulder surely hurts!
124. The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
125. The two-twenty-two train tore through the tunnel.
126. There's a sandwich on the sand which was sent by a sane witch.
127. Three gray geese in the green grass grazing.
     Gray were the geese and green was the grass
128. To begin to toboggan first, buy a toboggan.
     But do not buy too big a toboggan!
     Too big a toboggan is too big a toboggan to buy to begin to toboggan.
129. Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs.
130. Vincent vowed vengeance very vehemently.
131. We surely shall see the sun shine soon.
132. What noise annoys an oyster most?
     A noisy noise annoys an oyster most.
133. Whenever the weather is cold.
     Whenever the weather is hot.
     We'll whether the weather,
     whatever the weather,
     whether we like it or not.
134. Where Molly had had "had had", "had had" had had the teacher's approval.
135. Which wristwatch is a Swiss wristwatch?
136. While we were walking, we were watching window washers
     wash Washington's windows with warm washing water.
137. You usely use unique unicorns.
138. Zebras zig and zebras zag.