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 man may cry Church! Church! at ev’ry word.
With no more piety than other people —
A daw’s not reckoned a religious bird
Because it keeps a-cawing from a steeple.
Thomas Hood (1799-1845)
Ode to Rae Wilson Esq.
2. When th’ iron is hot, strike.
John Heywood (?1497-?1580)
Proverbs, Bk I, Chap. III
3. He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.
Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)
Christian Morals, Pt I, XXXIV
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