Proverbial Wisdom

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

43. For hyt is commynly sayd ‘Many yes see bettur than one’.

Thomas Starkey (?1495-1538)

England in the Reign of Henry VIII, Bk I,
Ch. IV, 3 (Pole)

44. Great men do not play stage tricks with the doctrines of life and death: only little men do that.

John Ruskin (1819-1900)

Sesame and Lilies, Lecture I, 20

45. ’Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus,
Another thing to fall.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Measure for Measure (Angelo), Act II, Sc. I

46. Good counsellors lack no clients.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Measure for Measure (Pompey), Act I, Scene I

47. Necessity does the work of courage.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Romola, Chap. LXVII

48. Plenty and peace breeds cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Cymbeline (Imogen), Act III, Scene VI