Proverbial Wisdom

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

211. Pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed.

Robert Burns (1759-1796)

Tam o’ Shanter

212. Take time by the forelock.

Old Proverb

213. He that will have cake out of the wheat, must tarry the grinding.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Troilus and Cressida (Pandarus), Act I, Scene I

214. What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?

George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)

Childe Harold, Can. III, LXXXIV

215. There’s no wound deeper than a pen can give,
It makes men living dead, and dead men live.

John Taylor (1578-1653)

A Kicksey-Winsey, Pt 7

216. Virtue is like pretious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed; for Prosperity doth best discover vice; but Adversity doth best discover virtue.

Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Essay V, Of Adversity