Proverbial Wisdom

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

487. Time and tide stay no man’s pleasure.

Robert Southwell (?1561-1595)

Loss in Delay

488. Visible governments are the toys of some nations, the diseases of others, the harness of some, the burdens of more.

John Ruskin (1819-1900)

Sesame and Lilies, Lecture I, 42

489. A little learning is a dang’rous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring;
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

Essay on Criticism, II, line 215

490. ’Tis good in every cause, you know,
To have two strings unto our bow.

Charles Churchill (1732-1764)

The Ghost, Bk IV, line 1296

491. Opinion governs all mankind,
Like the blind’s leading of the blind.

Samuel Butler (1613-1680)

Miscellaneous Thoughts, line 269

492. He that fights and runs away
May live to fight another day.

Sir John Mennis (1599-1671)

Musarum Deliciae