Proverbial Wisdom

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

721. Riches can’t always purchase happiness.

Robert Southey (1774-1843)

The Wedding (Traveller)

722. Damn with faint praise.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

Prologue to the Satires

723. It’s a melancholy consideration indeed, that our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and that an increase of our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)

The Good-Natured Man (Honey wood), Act I

724. A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

The Bible

Proverbs 15:13

725. The hastie man never wanteth woe.

John Heywood (?1497-?1580)

Proverbs, Bk I, Ch. II

726. How happy could I be with either,
Were t’ other dear charmer away!

John Gay (1685-1732)

The Beggars’ Opera (Mac heath sings), Act II,
Scene II