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.
’Tis hard for kings to steer an equal course,
And they who banish one oft gain a worse.
John Dryden (1631-1700)
Tarquin and Tullia
2.
Fashion too often makes a monstrous noise,
Bids us, a fickle jade, like fools adore
The poorest trash, the meanest toys.
Peter Pindar (1738-1819)
Odes to the Royal Academicians, XI
3. It’s ill livin’ in a hen-roost for them as doesn’t like fleas.
George Eliot (1819-1880)
Adam Bede (Mrs Poyser)
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