Proverbial Wisdom

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

211. His heart runs away with his head.

George Colman (1762-1836)

Who Wants a Guinea? (Heartly), Act I, Scene I

212. Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Edmund Burke (1730-1797)

Reflections on the Revolution in France

213. Contempt of fame begets contempt of virtue.

Ben Jonson (1572-1637)

Sejanus (Tiberius), Act I, Scene II

214. He is as cowardly
That longer fears to live, as he that fears to die.

Phineas Fletcher (1582-1650)

The Purple Island, Can. X, St. VIII

215. Treason doth never prosper; what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

Sir James Harrington (1430-1485)

Epigrams

216. Pride,
Howe’er disguised in its own majesty,
Is littleness.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Poems Written in Youth, VII