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.
True friendship’s laws are by this rule expressed,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Homer’s Odyssey, Bk XV, line 83
2.
Be Britain still to Britain true,
Amang oursel’s united;
For never but by British hands
Maun British wrangs be righted.
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
‘Does Haughty Gaul Invasion Threat?’
3.
All things that are,
Are with more spirit chased than enjoy’d.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Merchant of Venice (Gratiano), Act II, Scene VI
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