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.
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice:
Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Hamlet (Polonius), Act I, Scene III
2. Maken vertue of necessite.
Geoffrey Chaucer (?1343-1400)
The Knight’s Tale, line 3044
3.
Accursed is the march of that glory
Which treads o’er the hearts of the free.
Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
Irish Melodies, Forget not the Fiel
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