Proverbial Wisdom

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

157. Be proud of those strong sons of thine
Who wrenched their rights from thee!

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

England and America

158. That evil is half cur’d whose cause we know.

Charles Churchill (1732-1764)

Gotham, Bk III, line 632

159. Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.

Thomas Love Peacock (?1785-1866)

Melincourt (Sir T. Paxarett), Ch. VII

160. If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Poor Richard’s Almanac

161. You cannot get blood out of a stone.

Old Proverb

162. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)

Essays, State Tamperings with Money and Banks