Proverbial Wisdom

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

637. Who keeps one end in view, makes all things serve.

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

In a Balcony

638. That man that hath a tongue I say is no man,
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Two Gentlemen of Verona (Valentine),
Act III, Scene I

639. Beauty is but skin deep.

Old Proverb

640. That’s a bad sort of eddication as make folks unreasonable.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Scenes from Clerical Life. Amos Barton (Mr Hackit)

641. These are the English arts, these we profess,
To be the same in misery and success;
To teach oppressors laws, assist the good,
Relieve the wretched, and subdue the proud.

Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax (1661-1715)

The Man of Honour

642. Hope herself ceases to be happiness when impatience companions her.

John Ruskin (1819-1900)

The Ethics of the Dust, The Crystal Orders