Exercises

Proverbial Wisdom

Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.

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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. For every ‘why’ he had a ‘wherefore’.

Samuel Butler (1613-1680)

Hudibras, Bk Can. I, line 131

2. Whatsoever a man soweth, that also shall he reap.

The Bible

Galatians 6:7

3. You may know him by his company.

William Wycherley (1641-1716)

Love in a Wood (Sir Simon), Act I, Scene I

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