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.
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
Hesperides, 208
2.
I am a man
More sinn’d against than sinning.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
King Lear (Lear), Act III, Scene II
3. Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund Burke (1730-1797)
Letters on the Regicide Peace, III, 1797
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