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. Mock not the cobbler for his black thumbs.

Thomas Fuller (1654-1734)

Holy and Profane States. Holy State: Of Jesting.

2. (I’ll) put a spoke among your wheels.

Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) and John Fletcher (1579-1625)

The Mad Lover (Chilax), Act III, Scene VI

3. The best of men have ever loved repose.

James Thomson (1700-1748)

The Castle of Indolence, I, line 17

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