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. Those who have endeavoured to teach to die well, have taught few to die willingly.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Letter to Mr Jos. Baretti, 10th June, 1761

2. Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast,
Yet love breaks through, and picks them all at last.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Venus and Adonis, 96

3. Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.

Sir James Mackintosh (1765-1832)

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