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.
What’s one man’s poison, signor,
Is another’s meat or drink.
John Fletcher (1579-1625)
Love’s Cure (Piorato), Act III, Scene II
2.
Breathes there a man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself has said,
This is my own, my native land ?
Whose heart hath ne’er within him burn’d,
As home his footsteps he hath turn’d,
From wandering on a foreign strand?
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Can. VI, I
3.
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distress’d.
William Cowper (1731-1800)
Retirement, line 623
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