Proverbial Wisdom

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

247. Contempt of fame begets contempt of virtue.

Ben Jonson (1572-1637)

Sejanus (Tiberius), Act I, Scene II

248. Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

Isaak Walton (1593-1683)

The Complete Angler (Piscator), Bk. I., Ch. II.

249. Defer not till to-morrow to be wise,
To-morrow’s sun to thee may never rise.

William Congreve (1670-1729)

Letter to Cobham

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

George Eliot (1819-1880)

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

251. If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Poor Richard’s Almanac

252. For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth: Nor is any poison so deadly, that it serveth not some wholesome use.

Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810-1889)

Proverbial Philosophy, Of Truth in Things False, 3