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. In Folly’s cup still laughs the bubble, Joy.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Essay on Man, Ep. II, line 288
2.
Either sex alone
Is half itself and in true marriage lies
Nor equal, nor unequal.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
The Princess, VII
3.
What female heart can gold despise?
What cat’s averse to fish?
Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat
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