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. Language is the dress of thought.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Lives of the Poets, Cowley
2. Cut thy coat according to thy cloth.
John Lyly (?1553-1606)
Euphues and his England
3.
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it do singe yourself.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Henry VIII (Norfolk), Act I, Scene I
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