Proverbial Wisdom

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

301. Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.

Sir James Mackintosh (1765-1832)

Ethical Philosophy

302. He’s best at ease that meddleth least.

Anonymous (?1590)

Fair Em, the Miller’s Daughter of Manchester, (Manville),
Act III, Scene XVII, line 1383

303. Great men are too often unknown, or, what is worse, misknown.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

Sartor Resartus, Bk I, Ch. III

304. Your evidence was lame:— proceed:
Come, help your lame dog o’er the stile.

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

Poems, Upon the Horrid Plot etc. (Whig and Tory)

305. You must practise
The manners of the time, if you intend
To have favour from it.

Philip Massinger (1583-1640)

The Unnatural Combat (Montreville), Act I, Scene I

306. If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

The Bible

Matthew 15:14