Proverbial Wisdom

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

145. Beauties are tyrants, and if they can reign
They have no feeling for their subject’s pain;
Their victim’s anguish gives their charms applause,
And their chief glory is the woe they cause.

George Crabbe (1754-1832)

The Patron

146. Better be happie than wise.

John Heywood (?1497-?1580)

Proverbs, Bk II, Ch. VI

147. Care that is enter’d once into the breast,
Will have the whole possession, ere it rest.

Ben Jonson (1572-1637)

Tale of a Tub (Lady Tub), Act I, Scene IV

148. A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

The Grandmother, VIII

149. Cut thy coat according to thy cloth.

John Lyly (?1553-1606)

Euphues and his England

150. Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Romola, Bk III, Ch. XLVIII