Proverbial Wisdom

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

127. Many little leaks may sink a ship.

Thomas Fuller (1654-1734)

Holy and Profane States; Holy State: The Good Servant.

128. Nicknames and whippings, when they are once laid on, no one has discovered how to take off.

Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)

Imaginary Conversations,
Peter Leopold and President Du Paty

129. Best things carry’d to excess are wrong.

Charles Churchill (1732-1764)

The Rosciad, line 1039

130. ‘Men are more eloquent than women made.’ ‘But women are more powerful to persuade.’

Thomas Randolph (1605-1635)

Amyntas, Prologue

131. Weariness
Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth
Finds the down pillow hard.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Cymbeline (Belarius), Act III, Scene VI

132. 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