Proverbial Wisdom

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

43. ‘Orthodoxy, my lord,’ said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper, ‘orthodoxy is my doxy, heterodoxy is another man’s doxy.’

Joseph Priestley (1733-1804)

Memoirs, Vol. I, p. 372

44. ’Tis not what man Does which exalts him,
But what man Would do!

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

Saul, XVIII

45. Let thy foot be seldom in thy neighbour’s house; lest he be weary of thee and hate thee.

The Bible

Proverbs 25:17

46. Jesters do oft prove prophets.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

King Lear (Regan), Act V, Scene III

47. The bitter goes before the sweet. Yea, and for as much as it doth, it makes the sweet the sweeter.

John Bunyan (1628-1688)

Pilgrim’s Progress (Timorous), Pt II

48. There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

In Memoriam, XCVI