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. A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

The Professor at the Breakfast Table, Ch. X

2. Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Scenes from Clerical Life. Janet’s Repentance

3. Your evidence was lame:— proceed:
Come, help your lame dog o’er the stile.

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

Poems, Upon the Horrid Plot etc. (Whig and Tory)

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