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. He makes a foe who makes a jest.
John Gay (1685-1732)
Fables, Pt. I, XLVI
2. Visible governments are the toys of some nations, the diseases of others, the harness of some, the burdens of more.
John Ruskin (1819-1900)
Sesame and Lilies, Lecture I, 42
3.
If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Henry IV., Pt. I. (Prince Henry), Act I., Scene II.
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