Proverbial Wisdom

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

361. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

John Bunyan (1628-1688)

Pilgrim’s Progress (Interpreter), Book I

362. A jest’s prosperity lies in the ear
Of him that hears it, never in the tongue
Of him that makes it.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Love’s Labour Lost (Rosaline), Act V, Sc. II

363. Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.

John Howard Payne (1791-1852)

Song, ‘Home, Sweet Home’. From his Opera, ‘Clari, The Maid of Milan’

364. O what’s a table richly spread,
Without a woman at its head!

Thomas Warton (1728-1790)

The Progress of Discontent

365. You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.

Old Proverb

366. Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Success