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. The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato, — the only good belonging to him is under ground.
Sir Thomas Overbury (1581-1613)
(Attributed)
2.
Pigmies are pigmies still, though perched on Alps,
And pyramids are pyramids in vales.
Edward Young (1683-1765)
Night Thoughts, Night VI, line 309
3.
He is not worthy of the honey-comb,
Who shuns the hives because the bees have stings.
Anonymous (1595)
Locrine (Hubba), Act III, Scene II
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