Proverbial Wisdom

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

643. Grief makes one hour ten.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Richard II (Bolingbroke), Act I, Scene III

644. Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,
And ev’ry grin, so merry draws one out.

Peter Pindar (1738-1819)

Expostulatory Odes, XV

645. The better part of valour is discretion.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Henry IV, Pt I (Falstaff), Act V, Scene IV

646. Ah! better to love in the lowliest cot
Than pine in a palace, alone.

Whyte Melville (1821-1878)

Chastelar

647. Either sex alone
Is half itself and in true marriage lies
Nor equal, nor unequal.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

The Princess, VII

648. A man’s vanity tells him what is honour, a man’s conscience what is justice.

Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)

Imaginary Conversations: Peter Leopold and President Du Paty (Leopold)