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 that will rise to the top of a high ladder must go up, not leap up.

L Machin

The Dumb Knight (Prate), Act I, Scene I

2. The best of men have ever loved repose.

James Thomson (1700-1748)

The Castle of Indolence, I, line 17

3. A chyld were beter to be unbore, than to be untaught.

Symon Simeonis (c. 1322)

Lessons of Wysedome for all maner Chyldryn, II

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