Proverbial Wisdom

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

91. Our hours in Love have wings; in absence, crutches.

Colley Cibber (1671-1757)

Xerxes (Tamira), Act IV, Scene III

92. In fair virtue’s heavenly road,
The cottage leaves the palace far behind.

Robert Burns (1759-1796)

The Cotter’s Saturday Night

93. Of all the paths lead to a woman’s love,
Pity’s the straightest.

Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) and John Fletcher (1579-1625)

The Knight of Malta (Mount Ferrat),
Act I, Scene I

94. If Jove stray, who dares say, Jove doth ill ?

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Pericles (Pericles), Act I, Scene I

95. I am a man
More sinn’d against than sinning.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

King Lear (Lear), Act III, Scene II

96. 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.