Proverbial Wisdom

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

619. Language is the dress of thought.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Lives of the Poets, Cowley

620. Wives are young men’s mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men’s nurses.

Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Essay VIII, Of Marriage and Single Life

621. Hot love soon colde.

John Heywood (?1497-?1580)

Proverbs, Bk I, Ch. II

622. When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice, in a contemptible struggle.

Edmund Burke (1730-1797)

On the Present Discontents

623. The man that lays his hand upon a woman,
Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch
Whom ’t were gross flattery to name a coward.

John Tobin (1770-1804)

The Honeymoon, Act II, Scene I

624. There smiles no Paradise on earth so fair
But guilt will raise avenging phantoms there.

Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835)

The Abencerrage, Can. 1