Proverbial Wisdom

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

355. Animals are such agreeable friends — they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Scenes of Clerical Life: Mr Gilfil’s Love Story

356. Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)

Letter to Comitess of Bute.

357. When Fortune favours, none but fools will dally.

John Dryden (1631-1700)

Epilogue VIII, To The Duke of Guise

358. Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Edmund Burke (1730-1797)

Letters on the Regicide Peace, III, 1797

359. The bad man’s cunning still prepares the way
For its own outwitting.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

Zapolya, Sc. I

360. In Folly’s cup still laughs the bubble, Joy.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

Essay on Man, Ep. II, line 288