Proverbial Wisdom

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

361. When the sunne shineth, make hay.

John Heywood (?1497-?1580)

Proverbs, Bk I, Chap. III

362. Those best can bear reproof, who merit praise.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

Essay on Criticism, Ep III, line 24

363. A patient man’s a pattern for a king.

Thomas Dekker (?1572-1632)

The Honest Whore, Pt II (Duke), last line

364. Make the doors upon a woman’s wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that and ’twill out at the key-hole; stop that, ’twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

As You Like It (Rosalind), Act IV, Scene I

365. 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

366. We ne’er can be
Made happy by compulsion.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

The Three Graves