Proverbial Wisdom

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

157. No rock so hard but that a little wave
May beat admission in a thousand years.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

The Princess

158. Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Twelfth Night (Clown), Act I, Scene V

159. Read Homer once, and you can read no more,
For all books else appear so mean, and poor;
Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read,
And Homer will be all the books you need.

John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1648-1721)

Essay on Poetry

160. Young twigges are sooner bent than old trees.

John Lyly (?1553-1606)

Euphues and his England

161. A man is never too old to learn.

Thomas Middleton (1580-1627)

Mayor of Queenborough (Simon), Act V, Scene I

162. That only disadvantage of honest hearts, credulity.

Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)

Arcadia, Bk II