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. Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
The Bible
Matthew 23:24
2.
Something attempted, something done,
Has earned a night’s repose.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
The Village Blacksmith
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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