Proverbial Wisdom

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

403. ‘Men are more eloquent than women made.’ ‘But women are more powerful to persuade.’

Thomas Randolph (1605-1635)

Amyntas, Prologue

404. True friendship’s laws are by this rule expressed,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

Homer’s Odyssey, Bk XV, line 83

405. He’s half absolv’d who has confessed.

Matthew Prior (1664-1721)

Alma, Can. II, line 22

406. Throw no gift againe the giver’s head;
For better is halfe a lofe than no bread.

John Heywood (?1497-?1580)

Proverbs, Bk I, Ch. XI

407. Truth is always strange, —
Stranger than fiction.

George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)

Don Juan, Can. XIV, St. 101

408. There is nothing on earth so lowly, but duty giveth it importance; No station so degrading, but it is ennobled by obedience.

Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810-1889)

Proverbial Philosophy, of Subjection, 155