Proverbial Wisdom

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

139. One ear it heard, at the other out it went.

Geoffrey Chaucer (?1343-1400)

Troilus and Cresscide, Bk IV, line 435

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

Thomas Tusser (1524-1580)

Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie, No. 13

141. Jesters do oft prove prophets.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

King Lear (Regan), Act V, Scene III

142. Those who believe a thing make others believe most.

Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)

Imaginary Conversations, Peter Leopold and
President Du Patey

143. In vaine he seeketh others to suppresse,
Who hath not learnd himselfe first to subdue.

Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

Faerie Queene, Bk VI, Can. I, St. 41

144. Animals are such agreeable friends — they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Scenes of Clerical Life: Mr Gilfil’s Love Story