Proverbial Wisdom

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

325. That in the captain’s but a cholerick word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Measure for Measure (Angelo), Act II, Scene III

326. ‘Men are more eloquent than women made.’ ‘But women are more powerful to persuade.’

Thomas Randolph (1605-1635)

Amyntas, Prologue

327. Ignorance is a blank sheet on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one on which we must first erase.

Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)

Lacon, I

328. Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Scenes from Clerical Life. Janet’s Repentance

329. When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Hamlet (King), Act IV, Scene V

330. A Briton, even in love, should be
A subject, not a slave.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Poems founded on the Affections