Proverbial Wisdom

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

307. Two heads are better than one.

John Heywood (?1497-?1580)

Proverbs, Bk I, Chap. IX

308. Hard is the task of justice, where distress
Excites our mercy, yet demands redress.

Colley Cibber (1671-1757)

The Heroick Daughter (King), Act III, last lines

309. New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason, but because they are not already common.

John Locke (1632-1704)

Essay on the Human Understanding,
Dedicatory Epistle

310. Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

Essay on Criticism, Pt III, line 574

311. Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper-chamber, if he has common-sense on the ground-floor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

The Poet at the Breakfast Table, V

312. Friends are not so easily made as kept.

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (1633-1695)

Maxims of State, XII