Proverbial Wisdom

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

535. You must practise
The manners of the time, if you intend
To have favour from it.

Philip Massinger (1583-1640)

The Unnatural Combat (Montreville), Act I, Scene I

536. Virtue’s its own reward.

Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726)

The Provoked Wife (Lady Brute), Act I, Scene I

537. Make the doors upon a woman’s wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that and ’twill out at the key-hole; stop that, ’twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

As You Like It (Rosalind), Act IV, Scene I

538. Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man’s conscience is the oracle of God.

George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)

The Island, Can. I, VI

539. Childhood shows the man,
As morning shows the day.

John Milton (1608-1674)

Paradise Regained, Bk IV, line 220

540. Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Edmund Burke (1730-1797)

Reflections on the Revolution in France