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.
Society is now one polish’d horde,
Form’d of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
Don Juan, Can. VIII, St. 95
2. The colt that’s back’d and burden’d being young, Loseth his pride, and never waxeth strong.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Venus and Adonis, St. 70
3.
’Tis better to have loved and lost,
Than never to have loved at all.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
In Memoriam, XXVII
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