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.
Be Britain still to Britain true,
Amang oursel’s united;
For never but by British hands
Maun British wrangs be righted.
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
‘Does Haughty Gaul Invasion Threat?’
2. Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Richard II (Bolingbroke), Act II, Sc. III
3. It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies — seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)
Lacon, CCLXXXVI
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