Proverbial Wisdom

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

691. It is an ill winde turnes none to good.

Thomas Tusser (1524-1580)

Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie, No. 13

692. At lover’s perjuries,
They say, Jove laughs.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Romeo and Juliet (Juliet), Act II, Scene II

693. The fox barks not, when he would steal the lamb.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Henry VI, Pt II (Suffolk), Act III, Scene I

694. The brave man is not he who feels no fear,
For that were stupid and irrational;
But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues,
And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.

Joanna Baillie (1762-1851)

Basil, Act III, Scene I

695. 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

696. The childhood shews the man,
As morning shews the day.

John Milton (1608-1674)

Paradise Regained, Bk IV, line 220