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.
Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in,
Bear’t that the opposed may beware of thee.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Hamlet (Polonius), Act I, Scene III
2.
Philosophy will clip an Angel’s wings,
Conquer all mysteries by rule and line,
Empty the haunted air, the gnomèd mine —
Unweave a rainbow.
John Keats (1795-1821)
Lamia, II
3. One ear it heard, at the other out it went.
Geoffrey Chaucer (?1343-1400)
Troilus and Cresscide, Bk IV, line 435
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