Proverbial Wisdom

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

697. Philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an errant jade on a journey.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)

The Good-Natured Man (Jarvis), Act I

698. What’s gone, and what’s past help,
Should be past grief.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

A Winter’s Tale (Paulina), Act III, Scene II

699. One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name.

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

Old Mortality, Ch. XXXIV

700. It’s a poor heart that never rejoices.

Old Proverb

701. Cut thy coat according to thy cloth.

John Lyly (?1553-1606)

Euphues and his England

702. The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato, — the only good belonging to him is under ground.

Sir Thomas Overbury (1581-1613)

(Attributed)