Proverbial Wisdom

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

427. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Henry IV, Pt II (King Henry), Act III, Scene I

428. What better school for manners, than the company of virtuous women?

David Hume (1711-1776)

Essay XIV, The Rise of Arts and Sciences

429. A man loveth more tenderlie
The thing that he hath bought most dere.

Geoffrey Chaucer (?1343-1400)

Romaunt of the Rose, line 2737

430. Prevention is better than cure.

Old Proverb

431. Read Homer once, and you can read no more,
For all books else appear so mean, and poor;
Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read,
And Homer will be all the books you need.

John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1648-1721)

Essay on Poetry

432. He only judges right who weighs, compares,
And, in the sternest sentence which his voice
Pronounces, ne’er abandons charity.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Ecclesiastical Sonnets, Pt. II, I