Introduction
On this page you will a find a selection of brief sayings, including short quotations from English literature as well as traditional proverbs. Choose a saying, and try to express the idea in different words as much as you can. In what circumstances might you use this quotation?
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. He that will use all winds, must shift his sail.
John Fletcher (1579-1625)
The Faithful Shepherdess (Chloe), Act III,
Scene III
2. He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.
Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
Essays of Elia, All Fools’ Day
3.
Throw no gift againe the giver’s head;
For better is halfe a lofe than no bread.
John Heywood (?1497-?1580)
Proverbs, Bk I, Ch. XI
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