Proverbial Wisdom

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

907. Either sex alone
Is half itself and in true marriage lies
Nor equal, nor unequal.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

The Princess, VII

908. The simplest pleasures must welcome be
When a friendly hand prepares them.

Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839)

They may talk of scenes that are bright and fair

909. You must cut your coat according to your cloth.

Old Proverb

910. Reputation is what men and women think of us.
Character is what God and angels know of us.

Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

911. We have scotch’d the snake, not kill’d it.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Macbeth (Macbeth), Act III, Scene II

912. Philosophy will clip an Angel’s wings,
Conquer all mysteries by rule and line,
Empty the haunted air, the gnomèd mine —
Unweave a rainbow.

John Keats (1795-1821)

Lamia, II