Proverbial Wisdom

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

379. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

The Bible

Proverbs 15:17

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

Old Proverb

381. 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

382. Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Felix Holt, Ch. XXX

383. The simplest pleasures must welcome be
When a friendly hand prepares them.

Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839)

They may talk of scenes that are bright and fair

384. If money go before, all ways do lie open.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

The Merry Wives of Windsor (Ford), Act II,
Scene II