Proverbial Wisdom

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

109. You cannot get blood out of a stone.

Old Proverb

110. It is an ill winde turnes none to good.

Thomas Tusser (1524-1580)

Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie, No. 13

111. If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

The Mill on the Floss (Maggie), Bk VI, Ch. XIV

112. One sickly sheep infects the flock,
And poisons all the rest.

Isaac Watts (1674-1748)

Songs for Children, XXI

113. Who hears music, feels his solitude
Peopled at once.

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

Balaustion’s Adventure

114. The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Felix Holt, Ch. XIII