Proverbial Wisdom

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

625. No crime’s so great as daring to excel.

Charles Churchill (1732-1764)

Epistle to Hogarth, line 52

626. By the bird’s song ye may learn the nest.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

Geraint and Enid

627. The tree is known by his fruit.

The Bible

Matthew 12:33

628. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1758

629. There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

The Drummer (Vellum), Act V, Scene I

630. Truth is always strange, —
Stranger than fiction.

George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)

Don Juan, Can. XIV, St. 101