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.
Beauties are tyrants, and if they can reign
They have no feeling for their subject’s pain;
Their victim’s anguish gives their charms applause,
And their chief glory is the woe they cause.
George Crabbe (1754-1832)
The Patron
2. Take time by the forelock.
Old Proverb
3.
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British
Public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)
Essay on Morres’ Life of Lord Byron
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