Proverbial Wisdom

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

169. When the stool’s rotten enough, no matter who sits on it.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Scenes from Clerical Life, Amos Barton (Mr Hackit)

170. How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Othello (Iago), Act II, Scene III

171. Laws are vain, by which we right enjoy,
If kings unquestioned can those laws destroy.

John Dryden (1631-1700)

Absalom and Achitophel, Pt I, line 763

172. The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

The Mill on the Floss, Bk VI, Ch. III

173. There is no vice so simple, but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

The Merchant of Venice (Bassanio), Act III,
Scene II

174. Men are valued not for what they are, but what they seem to be.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

Money (Sir John Vesey), Act I, Scene I