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. He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it is a saint; that boasteth of it is a devil.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734)
Holy and Profane States. Holy State, of Self-Praising
2. Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.
Sir James Mackintosh (1765-1832)
Ethical Philosophy
3. A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of Pictures; and talke but a tinckling Cymball, where there is no love.
Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Essay XXVII, Of Friendship.
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