Exercises

Proverbial Wisdom

Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.

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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. If Jove stray, who dares say, Jove doth ill ?

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Pericles (Pericles), Act I, Scene I

2. Curses, like young chickens, come home to roost.

Robert Southey (1774-1843)

The Curse of Kehama

3. Wearing all that weight
Of learning lightly like a flower.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

In Memoriam, CXXXI

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