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. No crime’s so great as daring to excel.
Charles Churchill (1732-1764)
Epistle to Hogarth, line 52
2. For ’tis not wise to be severe.
John Dryden (1631-1700)
Epilogue, II
3.
The absent Danger greater still appears,
Less fears he who is near the thing he fears.
Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)
Tragedy of Cleopatra (Rodon), Act IV, Scene I
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