Exercises

Proverbial Wisdom

Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.

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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 pays the half who does confess the debt.

Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

Hesperides, 226

2. A jest’s prosperity lies in the ear
Of him that hears it, never in the tongue
Of him that makes it.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Love’s Labour Lost (Rosaline), Act V, Sc. II

3. Necessity never made a good bargain.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Poor Richard’s Almanac

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