Proverbial Wisdom

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

571. That’s a bad sort of eddication as make folks unreasonable.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Scenes from Clerical Life. Amos Barton (Mr Hackit)

572. Grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.

William Congreve (1670-1729)

The Old Bachelor (Sharper), Act V, Scene VIII

573. Freedom, which in no other land will thrive,
Freedom, an English subject’s sole prerogative,
Without whose charms even peace would be
But a dull, quiet slavery.

John Dryden (1631-1700)

Threnodia Augustalis (on the death of King Charles II in 1685)

574. Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite
The man that mocks at it and sets it light.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Richard II (Gaunt), Act I, Scene III

575. Reputation is what men and women think of us.
Character is what God and angels know of us.

Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

576. There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

The Drummer (Vellum), Act V, Scene I