Proverbial Wisdom

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

565. Music, the mosaic of the air.

Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)

Music’s Empire, 17

566. Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.

Thomas Love Peacock (?1785-1866)

Melincourt (Sir T. Paxarett), Ch. VII

567. He that, to his prejudice, will do
A noble action and a gen’rous too,
Deserves to wear a more resplendent crown
Than he that hath a thousand battles won.

John Pomfret (1667-1702)

Cruelty and Lust, line 399

568. If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Poor Richard’s Almanac

569. Defer not till to-morrow to be wise,
To-morrow’s sun to thee may never rise.

William Congreve (1670-1729)

Letter to Cobham

570. Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.

Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)

Lacon, CCXLV