Proverbial Wisdom

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

739. Fashion too often makes a monstrous noise,
Bids us, a fickle jade, like fools adore
The poorest trash, the meanest toys.

Peter Pindar (1738-1819)

Odes to the Royal Academicians, XI

740. We look before and after, and pine for what is not.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

Ode to a Skylark

741. Each woman is a brief of womankind.

Sir Thomas Overbury (1581-1613)

A Wife, line 1

742. The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to scourge us.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

King Lear (Edgar), Act V, Scene III

743. Liars should have good memories.

Old Proverb

744. It is too late to shutte the stable door when the steede is stolne.

John Lyly (?1553-1606)

Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit