Proverbial Wisdom

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

133. Faint is the bliss, that never past thro’ pain.

Colley Cibber (1671-1757)

Love in a Riddle (Iphis), Act III, Scene II

134. Let thy foot be seldom in thy neighbour’s house; lest he be weary of thee and hate thee.

The Bible

Proverbs 25:17

135. No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Romola (Pietro Cennini), Bk I, Ch. IX

136. Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper-chamber, if he has common-sense on the ground-floor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

The Poet at the Breakfast Table, V

137. They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)

Arcadia, Bk I

138. If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Henry IV., Pt. I. (Prince Henry), Act I., Scene II.