Proverbial Wisdom

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

517. Good is best when soonest wrought,
Linger’d labours come to nought.

Robert Southwell (?1561-1595)

Loss in Delay

518. True happiness
Consists not in the multitude of friends,
But in the worth and choice.

Ben Jonson (1572-1637)

Cynthia’s Revels (Arete), Act III, Scene II

519. No rock so hard but that a little wave
May beat admission in a thousand years.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

The Princess

520. Some falsehood mingles with all truth.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

The Golden Legend, IV

521. Friendship’s like musick; two strings tun’d alike,
Will both stirre; though only one you strike.

Francis Quarles (1592-1644)

Job Militant, Sec 7, Med. 7

522. When ingratitude barbs the dart of injury, the wound has double danger in it.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)

The School for Scandal (Jos. Surface), Act IV, Scene III