Exercises

Proverbial Wisdom

Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.

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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. New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason, but because they are not already common.

John Locke (1632-1704)

Essay on the Human Understanding,
Dedicatory Epistle

2. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in,
Bear’t that the opposed may beware of thee.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Hamlet (Polonius), Act I, Scene III

3. Handsome is as handsome does.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)

The Vicar of Wakefield, Ch. I

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