Proverbial Wisdom

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

85. Good is best when soonest wrought,
Linger’d labours come to nought.

Robert Southwell (?1561-1595)

Loss in Delay

86. What signifies a few foolish angry words? they don’t break bones, nor give black eyes.

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1628-1687)

The Militant Couple (Bellair)

87. Read Homer once, and you can read no more,
For all books else appear so mean, and poor;
Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read,
And Homer will be all the books you need.

John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1648-1721)

Essay on Poetry

88. Great actions are not always true sons
Of great and mighty resolutions.

Samuel Butler (1613-1680)

Hudibras, Pt I, Can. I, line 885

89. There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Essay XXXI, of Suspicion

90. Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite
The man that mocks at it and sets it light.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Richard II (Gaunt), Act I, Scene III