Proverbial Wisdom

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

187. A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Washington Irving (1783-1859)

Rip Van Winkle

188. That’s a bad sort of eddication as make folks unreasonable.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Scenes from Clerical Life. Amos Barton (Mr Hackit)

189. Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Hamlet (Polonius), Act I, Scene III

190. One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Sir Edwin Arnold (1832-1904)

Adzuma, or The Japanese Wife (Sakamune),
Act II, Scene V

191. Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Timon of Athens (First Senator), Act III, Scene V

192. Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade
To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep,
Than doth a rich embroider’d canopy
To kings, that fear their subjects’ treachery?

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Henry VI, Pt III (King Henry), Act II, Scene V