Proverbial Wisdom

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

163. 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

164. The love of money is the root of all evil.

The Bible

1 Timothy 6:10

165. If reasons were as plenty as blackberries,
I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

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

166. Read Homer once, and you can read no more,
For all books else appear so mean, and poor;
Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read,
And Homer will be all the books you need.

John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1648-1721)

Essay on Poetry

167. What though youth gave love and roses.
Age still leaves us friends and wine.

Thomas Moore (1779-1852)

Spring and Autumn

168. A man may cry Church! Church! at ev’ry word.
With no more piety than other people —
A daw’s not reckoned a religious bird
Because it keeps a-cawing from a steeple.

Thomas Hood (1799-1845)

Ode to Rae Wilson Esq.