Proverbial Wisdom

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

115. A penny for your thought.

John Lyly (?1553-1606)

Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit

116. It is more blessed to give than to receive.

The Bible

Acts 20:35

117. Speak not in the hearing of a fool;
For he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

The Bible

Proverbs 23:9

118. Ignorance of better things makes man,
Who cannot much, rejoice in what he can.

William Cowper (1731-1800)

Retirement

119. There is one road
To peace, and that is truth, which follow ye;
Love sometimes leads astray to misery.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

Julian and Maddalo

120. Poets lose half the praise they should have got,
Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

Edmund Waller (1606-1687)

On Roscommon’s Translation of De Arte Poetica