Proverbial Wisdom

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

61. One cannot eat one’s cake and have it too.

Isaac Bickerstaff (1733-?1812)

Thomas and Sally

62. What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?

George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)

Childe Harold, Can. III, LXXXIV

63. It is excellent
To have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Measure for Measure (Isabella), Act II, Scene II

64. Courage scorns the death it cannot shun.

John Dryden (1631-1700)

The Conquest of Granada, Pt II (Almanzar), Act IV, Scene II

65. He jests at scars, that never felt a wound.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Romeo and Juliet (Romeo), Act II, Scene II

66. Music, the mosaic of the air.

Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)

Music’s Empire, 17