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. We have scotch’d the snake, not kill’d it.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Macbeth (Macbeth), Act III, Scene II
2.
Men cast the blame of their unprosperous acts
Upon the abettors of their weak resolve;
Or anything but their weak guilty selves.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
The Cenci (Orsino), Act V, Scene I
3. God’s mills grind slow, but sure.
George Herbert (1593-1633)
Jacula Prudentum
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