Proverbial Wisdom

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

49. Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Silas Marner (Nancy), Chap. XVIII

50. Truth is always strange, —
Stranger than fiction.

George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)

Don Juan, Can. XIV, St. 101

51. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Hamlet (Hamlet), Act III, Scene II

52. Ah, better to love in the lowliest cot
Than to reign in a palace, alone.

Whyte Melville (1821-1878)

Chastelar

53. Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Julius Caesar (Caesar), Act II, Scene II

54. Nicknames and whippings, when they are once laid on, no one has discovered how to take off.

Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)

Imaginary Conversations,
Peter Leopold and President Du Paty