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. I beseech you, let his lack of years be no impediment to let him lack a reverend estimation; for I never knew so young a body with so old a head.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Merchant of Venice (the Clerk reads), Act IV, Scene I
2.
Sweet tastes have sour closes;
And he repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.
Francis Quarles (1592-1644)
Emblems, Bk I, No. 7
3.
Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathom’d caves of ocean bear;
Full many a flow’r is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
Elegy in a Country Churchyard
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