Proverbial Wisdom

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

73. Animals are such agreeable friends — they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Scenes of Clerical Life: Mr Gilfil’s Love Story

74. Maken vertue of necessite.

Geoffrey Chaucer (?1343-1400)

The Knight’s Tale, line 3044

75. If trod upon, a worm
Will turn again.

Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) and William Rowley (?1585-1626)

The Spanish Gipsy (Constanza), Act V, Scene I

76. 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

77. How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is
To have a thankless child.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

King Lear (Lear), Act I, Scene IV

78. You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.

Old Proverb