A finger in every pie.
Born with a silver spoon in one's mouth.
The pot calling the kettle black.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Too much of a good thing.
Wild-goose chase.
Put your answer in the comments, and no googling. If you have a good story to go with your knowledge, please share that too.
I'll be posting on napkins and linens for the table soon. Stay tuned.
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Well, my first guess was Benjimin Franklin and his Poor Richard's Almanac, but then I thought it might also be Shakespeare, owing to the references to pudding (not the vanilla kind, but the bread kind) and pies (as in kidney not apple). The pot calling the kettle black also sounds biblical (along the lines of "do unto others"). And a "wild goose chase" occurs in so many early rock and roll songs. I can't wait for the solution!
TERRI
Good ideas Terri, but with your world travels, you should be thinking broader, more westerly of your current location.
Even though I recognize all of those quotations, I don't have a clue where they come from.
Where is Terri located? Since you told her to think more westerly - what about one of Mark Twain's works?
I'll keep thinking about it and may come back with an answer a bit later.
Any other clues?
May Kay, Terri is in Austria. The words would have originally been a language other than English.
Aleutian? (Canadian wild geese) or something by Confucius? or the Buddah? I'm on a wild goose chase here! :-)
Although the page has been widely viewed, I'm not getting many guesses, so I'll reveal the answer.
These quotes are from Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote de la Mancha.
Well, I'm relieved that the quotations aren't from a book that I've read because otherwise I would have felt as if I should have known the answer. "Don Quixote" never even entered my mind.
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