Proverbial Wisdom

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

637. He who at fifty is a fool,
Is far too stubborn grown for school.

Nathaniel Cotton (1707-1788)

Visions in Verse, Slander

638. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Essay L, On Studies

639. Need hath no law.

William Langland (?1332-?1386)

Piers the Plowman, Passus XXIII, line 10

640. One to-day is worth two to-morrows.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Poor Richard’s Almanac

641. Freedom, which in no other land will thrive,
Freedom, an English subject’s sole prerogative,
Without whose charms even peace would be
But a dull, quiet slavery.

John Dryden (1631-1700)

Threnodia Augustalis (on the death of King Charles II in 1685)

642. Remembrance oft may start a tear.

Robert Burns (1759-1796)

Verses written under Violent Grief