Proverbial Wisdom

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

307. Who bravely dares, must sometimes risk a fall.

Tobias George Smollett (1721-1771)

Advice (Friend), line 208

308. Many little leaks may sink a ship.

Thomas Fuller (1654-1734)

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

309. Man seeks his own good at the whole world’s cost.

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

Luria (Braccio), Act I.

310. Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)

The Traveller, line 386

311. He that is giddy, thinks the world turns round.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Taming of the Shrew (Katharina), Act V, Scene II

312. When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice, in a contemptible struggle.

Edmund Burke (1730-1797)

On the Present Discontents