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. Contempt of fame begets contempt of virtue.
Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
Sejanus (Tiberius), Act I, Scene II
2.
Grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
William Congreve (1670-1729)
The Old Bachelor (Sharper), Act V, Scene VIII
3.
Revenge, at first though sweet,
Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
John Milton (1608-1674)
Paradise Lost, Bk IX, line 171
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