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. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729)
The Tatler, No. 147
2. Dull is the jester when the joke’s unkind.
Edward Young (1683-1765)
Love of Fame, Sat. II, line 124
3.
Women, like princes, find few real friends:
All who approach them their own ends pursue;
Lovers and ministers are seldom true.
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton (1709-1773)
Advice to a Lady
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