Proverbial Wisdom

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

433. Society in poverty is better than solitude in wealth.

Thomas Love Peacock (?1785-1866)

Melincourt (Mr Forrester), Ch. XII

434. What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?

George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)

Childe Harold, Can. III, LXXXIV

435. Who overcomes
By force, hath overcome but half his foe.

John Milton (1608-1674)

Paradise Lost, Bk I, line 648

436. Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Romola, Bk III, Ch. XLVIII

437. That’s a bad sort of eddication as make folks unreasonable.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Scenes from Clerical Life. Amos Barton (Mr Hackit)

438. It is a custom
More honoured in the breach than the observance.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Hamlet (Hamlet), Act I, Scene IV