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.
There’s no wound deeper than a pen can give,
It makes men living dead, and dead men live.
John Taylor (1578-1653)
A Kicksey-Winsey, Pt 7
2. Need hath no law.
William Langland (?1332-?1386)
Piers the Plowman, Passus XXIII, line 10
3.
Not ten yoke of oxen
Have the power to draw us
Like a woman’s hair.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
The Saga of King Olaf
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