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. One to-day is worth two to-morrows.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Poor Richard’s Almanac
2. Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless — nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.
George Eliot (1819-1880)
Felix Holt
3.
He that doth live at home, and learns to know
God and himself, needeth no further go.
Christopher Harvey (1597-1663)
The Synagogue, Travels at Home
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