Proverbial Wisdom

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

91. The first act’s doubtful, but we say
It is the last commends the play.

Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

Hesperides, 225

92. He that will not use the rod on his child, his child shall be used as a rod on him.

Thomas Fuller (1654-1734)

Holy and Profane States. Holy State,
The Good Parent.

93. Like master, like man.

Old Proverb

94. If reasons were as plenty as blackberries,
I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Henry IV, Pt I (Falstaff), Act II, Scene IV

95. There’s a new tribunal now
Higher than God’s — the educated man’s!

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

The Ring and the Book, X, line 1977

96. He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

The Idler, No. 70