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.
If trod upon, a worm
Will turn again.
Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) and William Rowley (?1585-1626)
The Spanish Gipsy (Constanza), Act V, Scene I
2. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Hamlet (Hamlet), Act III, Scene II
3. Nothing wins a man sooner than a good turn.
Robert Burton (1577-1640)
Anatomy of Melancholy, Part III, Sect I,
Mem. II, Subs. I
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