Proverbial Wisdom

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

121. You can’t judge a horse by the harness.

Old Proverb

122. Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

The Bible

Matthew 23:24

123. Pride goeth before destruction,
And an haughty spirit before a fall.

The Bible

Proverbs 16:18

124. Grief should be the instructor of the wise ;
Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth,
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of life.

George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)

Manfred, Act I, Scene I

125. Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast,
Yet love breaks through, and picks them all at last.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Venus and Adonis, 96

126. He makes no friend who never made a foe.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

Launcelot and Elaine.