Proverbial Wisdom

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

553. Best things carry’d to excess are wrong.

Charles Churchill (1732-1764)

The Rosciad, line 1039

554. An open foe may prove a curse,
But a pretended friend is worse.

John Gay (1685-1732)

Fables, Pt I, Fable XVII

555. Look ere ye leape.

John Heywood (?1497-?1580)

Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. II.

556. Birds of a feather will gather together.

Old Proverb

557. Lydia, you ought to know that lying don’t become a young woman!

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)

The Rivals (Mrs Malaprop), Act III., Scene III.

558. Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Edmund Burke (1730-1797)

Letters on the Regicide Peace, III, 1797