Proverbial Wisdom

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

85. Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Social Aims

86. Tir’d Nature’s sweet restorer, balmy sleep,
He, like the world, his ready visit pays
Where fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes:
Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe,
And lights on lids unsully’d with a tear.

Edward Young (1683-1765)

Night Thoughts, Night I, line 1

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

Thomas Gray (1716-1771)

Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat

88. It was alway yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

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

89. When Fortune favours, none but fools will dally.

John Dryden (1631-1700)

Epilogue VIII, To The Duke of Guise

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

Isaac Watts (1674-1748)

Songs for Children, XXI