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. Two heads are better than one.

John Heywood (?1497-?1580)

Proverbs, Bk I, Chap. IX

2. Two of a trade can ne’er agree.

John Gay (1685-1732)

Fables, XXL

3. Life has no path so short as to renown !

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

King Arthur, Bk XII, CLXI

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