Proverbial Wisdom

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

169. Hot love soon colde.

John Heywood (?1497-?1580)

Proverbs, Bk I, Ch. II

170. One foul wind no more makes a winter, than one swallow makes a summer.

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

Martin Chuzzlewit, Ch. XLIII

171. Be Britain still to Britain true,
Amang oursel’s united;
For never but by British hands
Maun British wrangs be righted.

Robert Burns (1759-1796)

‘Does Haughty Gaul Invasion Threat?’

172. Politeness costs nothing, and gains everything.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)

Letters

173. The man who does all he can, in a low station, is more a hero than he who omits any worthy action he is able to accomplish in a great one.

Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729)

Spectator, No. 248

174. Reading is seeing by proxy.

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)

The Study of Sociology, Ch. XV