Proverbial Wisdom

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

229. Some bookes are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Essay L, Of Studies

230. A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

The Professor at the Breakfast Table, Ch. X

231. Two of a trade can ne’er agree.

John Gay (1685-1732)

Fables, XXL

232. Reading is seeing by proxy.

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)

The Study of Sociology, Ch. XV

233. Revenge, at first though sweet,
Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.

John Milton (1608-1674)

Paradise Lost, Bk IX, line 171

234. (I’ll) put a spoke among your wheels.

Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) and John Fletcher (1579-1625)

The Mad Lover (Chilax), Act III, Scene VI