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. Use not to lie, for that is unhonest: speak not every truth, for that is unneedful; yes, in time and place, a harmless lie is a great deal better than a hurtful truth.
Roger Ascham (1515-1568)
Letter to Mr C. Howe
2. They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
Arcadia, Bk I
3.
That which we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it ; but being lack’d and lost,
Why, then we rack the value, then we find
The virtue that possession would not show us.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Much Ado about Nothing (Friar), Act IV, Scene I
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