Proverbial Wisdom

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

715. Men take more pains to lose themselves than would be requisite to keep them in the right road.

Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-1665)

The Broad Stone of Honour, Godefridus, X

716. Dull is the jester when the joke’s unkind.

Edward Young (1683-1765)

Love of Fame, Sat. II, line 124

717. The English winter — ending in July
To recommence in August.

George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)

Don Juan, Can. XIII, St. 42

718. It is the bright day, that brings forth the adder;
And that craves wary walking.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Julius Caesar (Brutus), Act II, Scene I

719. Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night:
God said, ‘Let Newton be!’ and all was light.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

Epitaph intended for Sir Isaac Newton

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

Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835)

The Abencerrage, Can. 1