Proverbial Wisdom

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

151. O what’s a table richly spread,
Without a woman at its head!

Thomas Warton (1728-1790)

The Progress of Discontent

152. A friend should bear a friend’s infirmities.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Julius Caesar (Cassius), Act IV

153. Genius, like all heavenly light,
Can blast as well as bless the sight.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838)

Stanzas to the Author of Mont Blanc

154. A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of Pictures; and talke but a tinckling Cymball, where there is no love.

Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Essay XXVII, Of Friendship.

155. He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

The Idler, No. 70

156. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

The Bible

Matthew 6:34