Proverbial Wisdom

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

661. Society is now one polish’d horde,
Form’d of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.

George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)

Don Juan, Can. VIII, St. 95

662. They who possess the prince possess the laws.

John Dryden (1631-1700)

Absalom and Achitophel, Pt I, line 476

663. Curses, like young chickens, come home to roost.

Robert Southey (1774-1843)

The Curse of Kehama

664. The bitter goes before the sweet. Yea, and for as much as it doth, it makes the sweet the sweeter.

John Bunyan (1628-1688)

Pilgrim’s Progress (Timorous), Pt II

665. Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Romola, Bk III, Ch. XLVIII

666. We have scotch’d the snake, not kill’d it.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Macbeth (Macbeth), Act III, Scene II