Proverbial Wisdom

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

265. No quality will get a man more friends than a disposition to admire the qualities of others.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Life of Johnson

266. What female heart can gold despise?
What cat’s averse to fish?

Thomas Gray (1716-1771)

Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat

267. Opinion governs all mankind,
Like the blind’s leading of the blind.

Samuel Butler (1613-1680)

Miscellaneous Thoughts, line 269

268. All is not gold that glisters.

John Heywood (?1497-?1580)

Proverbs, Bk I, Chap. X

269. Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man’s conscience is the oracle of God.

George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)

The Island, Can. I, VI

270. These are the English arts, these we profess,
To be the same in misery and success;
To teach oppressors laws, assist the good,
Relieve the wretched, and subdue the proud.

Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax (1661-1715)

The Man of Honour