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.
Treason doth never prosper; what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Sir James Harrington (1430-1485)
Epigrams
2. Make the doors upon a woman’s wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that and ’twill out at the key-hole; stop that, ’twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
As You Like It (Rosalind), Act IV, Scene I
3. They only babble who practise not reflection.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)
Pizarro (Elvira), Act I, Scene I
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