Proverbial Wisdom

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

121. It’s a melancholy consideration indeed, that our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and that an increase of our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)

The Good-Natured Man (Honey wood), Act I

122. Man proposeth, God disposeth.

George Herbert (1593-1633)

Jacula Prudentum

123. We must take our poets as we do our meals — as they are served up to us.

Augustine Birrell (1850-1933)

Obiter Dicta, Mr Browning’s Poetry

124. Practise what you preach.

Edward Young (1683-1765)

Love of Fame, Sat. III, line 48

125. That man that hath a tongue I say is no man,
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Two Gentlemen of Verona (Valentine),
Act III, Scene I

126. Nice customs court’sy to great kings.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Henry V (King Henry), Act V, Scene II