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.
One murder made a villain;
Millions a hero. Princes were privileg’d
To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.
Beilby Porteus (1731-1809)
Death, line 155 (speaking of how war came into the world)
2.
True happiness
Consists not in the multitude of friends,
But in the worth and choice.
Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
Cynthia’s Revels (Arete), Act III, Scene II
3.
A little learning is a dang’rous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring;
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Essay on Criticism, II, line 215
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