Proverbial Wisdom

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

133. Care that is enter’d once into the breast,
Will have the whole possession, ere it rest.

Ben Jonson (1572-1637)

Tale of a Tub (Lady Tub), Act I, Scene IV

134. How were pity understood
Unless by pain?

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

Parleyings with Certain People: Francis Farini

135. A foole I doe him firmely hold,
That loves his fetters, though they were of gold.

Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

Faerie Queene, Bk III, Can. IX, St. 8

136. The better part of valour is discretion.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Henry IV, Pt I (Falstaff), Act V, Scene IV

137. Handsome is as handsome does.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)

The Vicar of Wakefield, Ch. I

138. All is not gold that glisters.

John Heywood (?1497-?1580)

Proverbs, Bk I, Chap. X