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. Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Isaak Walton (1593-1683)
The Complete Angler (Piscator), Bk. I., Ch. II.
2.
Fashion too often makes a monstrous noise,
Bids us, a fickle jade, like fools adore
The poorest trash, the meanest toys.
Peter Pindar (1738-1819)
Odes to the Royal Academicians, XI
3.
There’s a new tribunal now
Higher than God’s — the educated man’s!
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
The Ring and the Book, X, line 1977
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