Proverbial Wisdom

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

511. Men’s behaviour should be like their apparell, not too strait, or point device, but free for exercise or motion.

Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Essay LII, Of Ceremonies and Respects

512. It’s ill livin’ in a hen-roost for them as doesn’t like fleas.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Adam Bede (Mrs Poyser)

513. Grief should be the instructor of the wise ;
Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth,
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of life.

George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)

Manfred, Act I, Scene I

514. In the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

The Bible

Proverbs 11:14

515. ’Tis easier to advise ‘bear up,’ than bear.

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

Balaustion’s Adventure

516. That in the captain’s but a cholerick word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Measure for Measure (Angelo), Act II, Scene III