Proverbial Wisdom

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

43. You can’t judge a horse by the harness.

Old Proverb

44. Take time by the forelock.

Old Proverb

45. It is too late to shutte the stable door when the steede is stolne.

John Lyly (?1553-1606)

Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit

46. A man loveth more tenderlie
The thing that he hath bought most dere.

Geoffrey Chaucer (?1343-1400)

Romaunt of the Rose, line 2737

47. Few love to hear the sins they love to act.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Pericles (Pericles), Act I, Scene I

48. An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.

Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)

Essay on Lord Bacon