Exercises

Proverbial Wisdom

Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.

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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. A Briton, even in love, should be
A subject, not a slave.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Poems founded on the Affections

2. Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man’s conscience is the oracle of God.

George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)

The Island, Can. I, VI

3. He jests at scars, that never felt a wound.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Romeo and Juliet (Romeo), Act II, Scene II

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