Exercises

Proverbial Wisdom

Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.

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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. Rest springs from strife, and dissonant chords beget Divinest harmonies.

Lewis Morris (1833-1907)

Songs of Two Worlds. Love’s Suicide

2. Animals are such agreeable friends — they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Scenes of Clerical Life: Mr Gilfil’s Love Story

3. In political discussion heat is in inverse proportion to knowledge.

James George Cotton Minchin (1851-1933)

The Growth of Freedom in the
Balkan Peninsula, p. 127

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