Proverbial Wisdom

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

343. Damn with faint praise.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

Prologue to the Satires

344. The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

The Mill on the Floss, Bk VI, Ch. III

345. Poison itself is a remedy in some diseases, and there is nothing so evil but what may be converted to purposes of good.

Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-1665)

The Broad Stone of Honour. Godefridus, XII

346. That which we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it ; but being lack’d and lost,
Why, then we rack the value, then we find
The virtue that possession would not show us.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Much Ado about Nothing (Friar), Act IV, Scene I

347. No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Romola (Pietro Cennini), Bk I, Ch. IX

348. It’s gude to be merry and wise,
It’s gude to be honest and true,
And afore you’re off with the old love
It’s best to be on wi’ the new.

Old Scottish Song