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. They stumble, that run fast.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence), Act II,
Scene III
2.
Heaven doth with us as we with torches do,
Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues
Did not go forth of us, ’twere all alike
As if we had them not.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Measure for Measure (Duke), Act I, Scene I
3.
He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke,
Submits his neck unto a second yoke.
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
Hesperides, 42
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