Proverbial Wisdom

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

55. No quality will get a man more friends than a disposition to admire the qualities of others.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Life of Johnson

56. Who is worse shod than the shoemaker’s wife?

John Heywood (?1497-?1580)

Proverbs, Bk I, Chap. XI

57. One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name.

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

Old Mortality, Ch. XXXIV

58. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Hamlet (Hamlet), Act III, Scene I

59. Posterity, that high court of appeal which is never tired of eulogising its own justice and discernment.

Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)

Essay on Machiavelli

60. Nobody can deny but that religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)

Letter to the Countess of Bute, 23rd June, 1754