Proverbial Wisdom

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

91. A custom
More honour’d in the breach than the observance.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Hamlet (Hamlet), Act I, Scene IV

92. What’s in a name? That which we call a rose,
By any other name would smell as sweet.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Romeo and Juliet (Juliet), Act II, Scene II

93. Reading is seeing by proxy.

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)

The Study of Sociology, Ch. XV

94. How were pity understood
Unless by pain?

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

Parleyings with Certain People: Francis Farini

95. Our deeds still travel with us from afar,
And what we have been makes us what we are.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Middlemarch, Ch. LXX, head lines

96. Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Comedy of Errors (Luciana), Act III, Scene II