Proverbial Wisdom

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

97. Get place and wealth, if possible with grace;
If not, by any means get wealth and place.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

Imitations of Horace, Bk I, Ep. I

98. More childish valourous than manly wise.

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

Tamburlaine the Great, Pt II (Calyphas), Act IV,
Scene I

99. Let us not burden our remembrance with
An heaviness that’s gone.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

The Tempest (Prospero), Act V, Scene I

100. Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Hamlet (Polonius), Act I, Scene III

101. The nightingale, if she should sing by day,
When every goose is cackling, would be thought
No better a musician than the wren.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

The Merchant of Venice (Portia), Act V, Scene I

102. 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