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.
He only judges right who weighs, compares,
And, in the sternest sentence which his voice
Pronounces, ne’er abandons charity.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Ecclesiastical Sonnets, Pt. II, I
2.
The law is blind, and speaks in general terms;
She cannot pity where occasion serves.
Thomas May (?1594-1650)
The Heir (Euphues), Act IV.
3. A living dog is better than a dead lion.
The Bible
Ecclesiastes 4:12
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