Proverbial Wisdom

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

139. It is nat gode a sleping hounde to wake.

Geoffrey Chaucer (?1343-1400)

Troilus and Cresseide, Book III, line 764

140. Second thoughts are best.

Old Proverb

141. Can wealth give happiness? look round and see
What gay distress! what splendid misery!
Whatever Fortunes lavishly can pour,
The mind annihilates and calls for more.

Edward Young (1683-1765)

Love of Fame, Sat. V, line 393

142. Use not to lie, for that is unhonest: speak not every truth, for that is unneedful; yes, in time and place, a harmless lie is a great deal better than a hurtful truth.

Roger Ascham (1515-1568)

Letter to Mr C. Howe

143. Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

William Congreve (1670-1729)

The Mourning Bride (Zara), Act III, Scene VIII

144. New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason, but because they are not already common.

John Locke (1632-1704)

Essay on the Human Understanding,
Dedicatory Epistle