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.
Not ten yoke of oxen
Have the power to draw us
Like a woman’s hair.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
The Saga of King Olaf
2.
Heaven doth with us as we with torches do,
Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues
Did not go forth of us, ’twere all alike
As if we had them not.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Measure for Measure (Duke), Act I, Scene I
3. Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Timon of Athens (First Senator), Act III, Scene V
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