The sayings in this puzzle are taken randomly from a list of 750 proverbial sayings.
Note: Many of these proverbs and quotations are in archaic English, and neither grammar nor spelling has been modernised.
1. A bad excuse is better, they say, than none at all.
Stephen Gosson (1554-1624)
The Schoole of Abuse
2.
Be England what she will,
With all her faults, she is my country still.
Charles Churchill (1732-1764)
The Farewell, line 27
3. Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
George Eliot (1819-1880)
Scenes from Clerical Life. Janet’s Repentance
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