Proverbial Wisdom

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

139. Truth is always strange, —
Stranger than fiction.

George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)

Don Juan, Can. XIV, St. 101

140. That’s a bad sort of eddication as make folks unreasonable.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Scenes from Clerical Life. Amos Barton (Mr Hackit)

141. Wearing all that weight
Of learning lightly like a flower.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

In Memoriam, CXXXI

142. If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Poor Richard’s Almanac

143. Physician, heal thyself.

The Bible

Luke 4:23

144. Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.

Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)

Lacon, CCXLV