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. We should marry to please ourselves, not other people.
Isaac Bickerstaff (1733-?1812)
The Maid of the Mill (Lord Ainsworth),
Act III, Scene IV
2.
Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes
Lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes:
Antiquity and birth are needless here;
’Tis impudence and money makes a peer.
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
The True-born Englishman, Pt I
3. To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
George Eliot (1819-1880)
Romola, Chap. XXXIX
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