Proverbial Wisdom

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

487. Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distress’d.

William Cowper (1731-1800)

Retirement, line 623

488. My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

David Copperfield (Mr Micawber), Ch. XII

489. The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the
Sabbath.

The Bible

Mark 2:27

490. Can man be free if woman be a slave?

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

The Revolt of Islam, II, XLIII

491. If fields are prisons, where is Liberty?

Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823)

The Farmer’s Boy, Autumn, line 226

492. ’Tis not enough to help the feeble up,
But to support him after.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Timon of Athens (Timon), Act I, Scene I