Proverbial Wisdom

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

451. No quality will get a man more friends than a disposition to admire the qualities of others.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Life of Johnson

452. For thre may kepe a counsel — if twain be awaie.

Geoffrey Chaucer (?1343-1400)

The Ten Commandments of Love, 49

453. There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Essay XXXI, of Suspicion

454. Be Britain still to Britain true,
Amang oursel’s united;
For never but by British hands
Maun British wrangs be righted.

Robert Burns (1759-1796)

‘Does Haughty Gaul Invasion Threat?’

455. What is a law, if those who make it
Become the forwardest to break it?

James Beattie (1768-1790)

The Wolf and the Shepherds

456. There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Julius Caesar (Brutus), Act IV, Scene III