Proverbial Wisdom

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

673. It is nat gode a sleping hounde to wake.

Geoffrey Chaucer (?1343-1400)

Troilus and Cresseide, Book III, line 764

674. One cannot eat one’s cake and have it too.

Isaac Bickerstaff (1733-?1812)

Thomas and Sally

675. Avarice, the spur of industry.

David Hume (1711-1776)

Essay XII: Of Civil Liberty

676. He jests at scars, that never felt a wound.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Romeo and Juliet (Romeo), Act II, Scene II

677. Sir, hell is paved with good intentions.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

As given by James Boswell, in his Life of Johnson

678. A man’s vanity tells him what is honour, a man’s conscience what is justice.

Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)

Imaginary Conversations: Peter Leopold and President Du Paty (Leopold)