Proverbial Wisdom

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

313. He who at fifty is a fool,
Is far too stubborn grown for school.

Nathaniel Cotton (1707-1788)

Visions in Verse, Slander

314. He lives long that lives well.

Thomas Fuller (1654-1734)

Holy and Profane States. Holy State,
The Good Child

315. For when the power of imparting joy
Is equal to the will, the human soul
Requires no other heaven.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

Queen Mab, II

316. Speak not in the hearing of a fool;
For he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

The Bible

Proverbs 23:9

317. An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.

Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)

Essay on Lord Bacon

318. Example is the lesson that all men can read.

Gilbert West (1703-1756)

Education, Can. I, LXXXI