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. Necessity does the work of courage.
George Eliot (1819-1880)
Romola, Chap. LXVII
2.
That which we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it ; but being lack’d and lost,
Why, then we rack the value, then we find
The virtue that possession would not show us.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Much Ado about Nothing (Friar), Act IV, Scene I
3.
A foole I doe him firmely hold,
That loves his fetters, though they were of gold.
Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
Faerie Queene, Bk III, Can. IX, St. 8
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