Proverbial Wisdom

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

193. Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Romola, Bk III, Ch. XLVIII

194. Love stoops, as fondly as he soars.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Poems of the Fancy, XVIII.

195. You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.

Old Proverb

196. That in the captain’s but a cholerick word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Measure for Measure (Angelo), Act II, Scene III

197. No furniture so charming as books, even if you never open them or read a single word.

Sydney Smith (1771-1845)

Memoirs, Chap IX

198. Oh! what a crowded world one moment may contain!

Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835)

The Last Constantine, LIX