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. 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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