Proverbial Wisdom

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

481. Ill news hath wings, and with the wind doth go;
Comfort’s a cripple, and comes ever slow.

Michael Drayton (15631631)

The Baron’s Wars, Bk II, XXVIII

482. 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

483. He jests at scars, that never felt a wound.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Romeo and Juliet (Romeo), Act II, Scene II

484. A day, an hour of virtuous liberty
Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

Cato (Cato), Act II, Scene I

485. It was alway yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Henry IV, Pt II (Falstaff), Act I, Scene II

486. You cannot get blood out of a stone.

Old Proverb