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.
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Julius Caesar (Brutus), Act IV, Scene III
2. He makes a foe who makes a jest.
John Gay (1685-1732)
Fables, Pt. I, XLVI
3. The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin deep saying.
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)
Essays, Personal Beauty
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