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.
That which in mean men we entitle patience,
Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Richard II (Duchess of Gloster), Act I, Scene II
2.
Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find;
Occasion, once past by, is bald behind.
Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)
Pyramus and Thisbe, XV
3.
Pride goeth before destruction,
And an haughty spirit before a fall.
The Bible
Proverbs 16:18
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