Proverbial Wisdom

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

127. Lydia, you ought to know that lying don’t become a young woman!

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)

The Rivals (Mrs Malaprop), Act III., Scene III.

128. Jesters do oft prove prophets.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

King Lear (Regan), Act V, Scene III

129. When ingratitude barbs the dart of injury, the wound has double danger in it.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)

The School for Scandal (Jos. Surface), Act IV, Scene III

130. There is properly no history, only biography.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

History

131. Man seeks his own good at the whole world’s cost.

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

Luria (Braccio), Act I.

132. A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and for ever.

Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810-1889)

Proverbial Philosophy. Of Reading, line 14