Proverbial Wisdom

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

145. The greatest clerks ben not the wisest men.

Geoffrey Chaucer (?1343-1400)

The Miller’s Tale

146. For Friendship, of itself a holy tie,
Is made more sacred by adversity.

John Dryden (1631-1700)

The Hind and the Panther, Pt III, line 47

147. ’Tis better to have loved and lost,
Than never to have loved at all.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

In Memoriam, XXVII

148. Music, the mosaic of the air.

Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)

Music’s Empire, 17

149. Not ten yoke of oxen
Have the power to draw us
Like a woman’s hair.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

The Saga of King Olaf

150. One to-day is worth two to-morrows.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Poor Richard’s Almanac