Proverbial Wisdom

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

745. Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.
He acts the third crime that defends the first.

Ben Jonson (1572-1637)

Catiline (Cicero), Act III, Scene II

746. Examples lead us, and we likely see;
Such as the prince is, will his people be.

Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

Hesperides, 761.

747. If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Henry IV., Pt. I. (Prince Henry), Act I., Scene II.

748. What female heart can gold despise?
What cat’s averse to fish?

Thomas Gray (1716-1771)

Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat

749. No rock so hard but that a little wave
May beat admission in a thousand years.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

The Princess

750. Childhood shows the man,
As morning shows the day.

John Milton (1608-1674)

Paradise Regained, Bk IV, line 220