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.
Our charity begins at home,
And mostly ends where it begins.
Horace Smith (1779-1849)
Horace in London, Bk II, Ode XV
2. Great talkers are never great doers.
Thomas Middleton (1580-1627)
Blurt, Master-Constable (Third Lady), Act Scene I
3. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
John Bunyan (1628-1688)
Pilgrim’s Progress (Interpreter), Book I
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