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.
Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead,
Excessive grief the enemy to the living.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
All’s Well that Ends Well (Lafeu), Act I, Scene I
2.
Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast,
Yet love breaks through, and picks them all at last.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Venus and Adonis, 96
3. We must take our poets as we do our meals — as they are served up to us.
Augustine Birrell (1850-1933)
Obiter Dicta, Mr Browning’s Poetry
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