Proverbial Wisdom

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

793. Fame, like water, bears up the lighter things,
And lets the weighty sink.

Sir Samuel Tuke, 1st Baronet (?1615-1674)

The Adventures of Five Hours (Don Antonio), Act II.

794. Society in poverty is better than solitude in wealth.

Thomas Love Peacock (?1785-1866)

Melincourt (Mr Forrester), Ch. XII

795. It will never out of the flesh that’s bred in the bone.

Ben Jonson (1572-1637)

Every Man in his Humour (Downright), Act II,
Scene I

796. Few love to hear the sins they love to act.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Pericles (Pericles), Act I, Scene I

797. Young twigges are sooner bent than old trees.

John Lyly (?1553-1606)

Euphues and his England

798. Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)

Lacon, CCXVII