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.
It is a custom
More honoured in the breach than the observance.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Hamlet (Hamlet), Act I, Scene IV
2.
He that strives not to stem his anger’s tide,
Does a wild horse without a bridle ride.
Colley Cibber (1671-1757)
Love’s Last Shift, Act III, Scene I, last lines
3. There is nothing on earth so lowly, but duty giveth it importance; No station so degrading, but it is ennobled by obedience.
Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810-1889)
Proverbial Philosophy, of Subjection, 155
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