Proverbial Wisdom

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

115. Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most, always like it the least.

Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773)

Letter to his Son, 29th January, 1748

116. The pen is mightier than the sword.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

Richelieu (Richelieu), Act II, Scene II

117. We look before and after, and pine for what is not.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

Ode to a Skylark

118. Examples lead us, and we likely see;
Such as the prince is, will his people be.

Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

Hesperides, 761.

119. How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes ill deeds done.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

King John (King), Act IV, Scene II

120. Opinion governs all mankind,
Like the blind’s leading of the blind.

Samuel Butler (1613-1680)

Miscellaneous Thoughts, line 269