Proverbial Wisdom

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

439. The hastie man never wanteth woe.

John Heywood (?1497-?1580)

Proverbs, Bk I, Ch. II

440. Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

Francis Quarles (1592-1644)

Emblems, Bk II

441. To judge wisely I suppose we must know how things appear to the unwise.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Daniel Deronda, Bk IV, Chap. XXIX

442. Princes and lords are but the breath of kings,
An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

Robert Burns (1759-1796)

The Cotter’s Saturday Night

443. Ill news hath wings, and with the wind doth go;
Comfort’s a cripple, and comes ever slow.

Michael Drayton (15631631)

The Baron’s Wars, Bk II, XXVIII

444. A glorious charter, deny it who can,
Is breathed in the words, I’m an Englishman.

Eliza Cook (1818-1889)

The Englishman