Proverbial Wisdom

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

625. It is a custom
More honoured in the breach than the observance.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Hamlet (Hamlet), Act I, Scene IV

626. One ear it heard, at the other out it went.

Geoffrey Chaucer (?1343-1400)

Troilus and Cresscide, Bk IV, line 435

627. None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)

Lacon, XL

628. If money go before, all ways do lie open.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

The Merry Wives of Windsor (Ford), Act II,
Scene II

629. Dull is the jester when the joke’s unkind.

Edward Young (1683-1765)

Love of Fame, Sat. II, line 124

630. In vaine he seeketh others to suppresse,
Who hath not learnd himselfe first to subdue.

Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

Faerie Queene, Bk VI, Can. I, St. 41