Proverbial Wisdom

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

631. For thre may kepe a counsel — if twain be awaie.

Geoffrey Chaucer (?1343-1400)

The Ten Commandments of Love, 49

632. What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.

Adam Smith (1723-1790)

The Wealth of Nations

633. When the people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

Ernest Maltravers, Bk VI, Chap. V

634. O woman! in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please.
And variable as the shade
By the light quivering aspen made;
When pain and anguish wring the brow,
A ministering angel thou!

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

Marmion, Can. VI, XXX

635. One sickly sheep infects the flock,
And poisons all the rest.

Isaac Watts (1674-1748)

Songs for Children, XXI

636. Lovers ever run before the clock.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Merchant of Venice (Gratiano), Act II, Scene VI