Proverbial Wisdom

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

445. Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)

Lacon: Many Things in Few Words, CCCCXXIV

446. One foul wind no more makes a winter, than one swallow makes a summer.

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

Martin Chuzzlewit, Ch. XLIII

447. Honesty is the best policy, but he who acts on that principle is not an honest man.

Richard Whately (1787-1863)

Thoughts and Apothegms, Part II, Chapter XVIII

448. What should they know of England who only England know?

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

The English Flag

449. Heaven forfend that vengeance e’er should strike,
Ere justice doomed the blow.

Robert Southey (1774-1843)

The Fall of Robespierre, Act II

450. Naught shall make us rue,
If England to herself do rest but true.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

King John (Bastard), Act V, Scene VII