Proverbial Wisdom

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

445. Nothing speaks our griefe so well
As to speak nothing.

Richard Crashaw (?1613-1649)

Upon the Death of a Gentleman, line 27

446. No love so true as love that dies untold.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

The Mysterious Illness

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

Old Proverb

448. A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and for ever.

Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810-1889)

Proverbial Philosophy. Of Reading, line 14

449. He who at fifty is a fool,
Is far too stubborn grown for school.

Nathaniel Cotton (1707-1788)

Visions in Verse, Slander

450. I am a man
More sinn’d against than sinning.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

King Lear (Lear), Act III, Scene II