Proverbial Wisdom

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

157. Each woman is a brief of womankind.

Sir Thomas Overbury (1581-1613)

A Wife, line 1

158. We ne’er can be
Made happy by compulsion.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

The Three Graves

159. Plenty and peace breeds cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Cymbeline (Imogen), Act III, Scene VI

160. Labour is but refreshment from repose.

James Montgomery (1771-1854)

Greenland, Can. 11

161. Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty, but beauty cannot long supply the absence of good nature.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

Spectator, No. 306

162. He that is but able to express
No sense at all in several languages,
Will pass for learneder than he that’s known
To speak the strongest reason in his own.

Samuel Butler (1613-1680)

Satire upon Human Learning, Pt I, line 65