Proverbial Wisdom

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

31. You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.

Old Proverb

32. When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice, in a contemptible struggle.

Edmund Burke (1730-1797)

On the Present Discontents

33. Men’s words are ever bolder than their deeds.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

Piccolomini, Act I, Scene IV

34. What is aught, but as ’tis valued?

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Troilus and Cressida (Troilus), Act II, Scene II

35. Can man be free if woman be a slave?

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

The Revolt of Islam, II, XLIII

36. We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British
Public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)

Essay on Morres’ Life of Lord Byron