Proverbial Wisdom

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

265. It is an ill winde turnes none to good.

Thomas Tusser (1524-1580)

Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie, No. 13

266. Love’s a blind guide, and those that follow him too often lose their way.

Colley Cibber (1671-1757)

Woman’s Wit (Emilia), Act I., Scene I.

267. There is nothing on earth so lowly, but duty giveth it importance; No station so degrading, but it is ennobled by obedience.

Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810-1889)

Proverbial Philosophy, of Subjection, 155

268. A penny for your thought.

John Lyly (?1553-1606)

Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit

269. The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.

Old Proverb

270. Care that is enter’d once into the breast,
Will have the whole possession, ere it rest.

Ben Jonson (1572-1637)

Tale of a Tub (Lady Tub), Act I, Scene IV