Proverbial Wisdom

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

481. A Briton, even in love, should be
A subject, not a slave.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Poems founded on the Affections

482. No crime’s so great as daring to excel.

Charles Churchill (1732-1764)

Epistle to Hogarth, line 52

483. A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone.

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

Essay on the Faculties of the Mind

484. Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

William Congreve (1670-1729)

The Mourning Bride (Zara), Act III, Scene VIII

485. Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,
And ev’ry grin, so merry draws one out.

Peter Pindar (1738-1819)

Expostulatory Odes, XV

486. Young twigges are sooner bent than old trees.

John Lyly (?1553-1606)

Euphues and his England