Proverbial Wisdom

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

703. A bad excuse is better, they say, than none at all.

Stephen Gosson (1554-1624)

The Schoole of Abuse

704. Ah! better to love in the lowliest cot
Than pine in a palace, alone.

Whyte Melville (1821-1878)

Chastelar

705. Riches can’t always purchase happiness.

Robert Southey (1774-1843)

The Wedding (Traveller)

706. Health is the first good lent to men;
A gentle disposition then;
Next, to be rich by no by-ways;
Lastly, with friends t’ enjoy our days.

Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

Hesperides, 121

707. If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Poor Richard’s Almanac

708. What female heart can gold despise?
What cat’s averse to fish?

Thomas Gray (1716-1771)

Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat