Proverbial Wisdom

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

139. Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

Essay on Criticism, Pt III, line 574

140. They stumble, that run fast.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence), Act II,
Scene III

141. Time and tide stay no man’s pleasure.

Robert Southwell (?1561-1595)

Loss in Delay

142. Language is the dress of thought.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Lives of the Poets, Cowley

143. I beseech you, let his lack of years be no impediment to let him lack a reverend estimation; for I never knew so young a body with so old a head.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Merchant of Venice (the Clerk reads), Act IV, Scene I

144. We must be free or die, who speak the tongue
That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold
Which Milton held.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Poems to National Independence, Pt I, XVI