Proverbial Wisdom

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

409. Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

The Bible

Matthew 23:24

410. If trod upon, a worm
Will turn again.

Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) and William Rowley (?1585-1626)

The Spanish Gipsy (Constanza), Act V, Scene I

411. Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Edmund Burke (1730-1797)

On the French Revolution

412. The childhood shews the man,
As morning shews the day.

John Milton (1608-1674)

Paradise Regained, Bk IV, line 220

413. There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

The Drummer (Vellum), Act V, Scene I

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

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

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