Proverbial Wisdom

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

667. Plenty, as well as want, can separate friends.

Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)

Davideis, Bk III, line 205

668. When Fortune favours, none but fools will dally.

John Dryden (1631-1700)

Epilogue VIII, To The Duke of Guise

669. There’s no erring twice in love and war.

John Pomfret (1667-1702)

Love Triumphant over Reason, line 88

670. Care that is enter’d once into the breast,
Will have the whole possession, ere it rest.

Ben Jonson (1572-1637)

Tale of a Tub (Lady Tub), Act I, Scene IV

671. Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

The Tempest (Trinculo), Act II, Scene II

672. The brain may devise laws for the blood; but a hot temper leaps o’er a cold decree!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

The Merchant of Venice (Portia), Act I, Scene II