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. Second thoughts are best.

Old Proverb

2. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

John Bunyan (1628-1688)

Pilgrim’s Progress (Interpreter), Book I

3. They who in quarrels interpose,
Must often wipe a bloody nose.

John Gay (1685-1732)

Fables, Pt I, XXXIV

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