Proverbial Wisdom

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

103. Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Richard II (Gaunt), Act II, Scene I

104. Never gallop Pegasus to death.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

To Bolingbroke, Bk I, Ep. I, 14

105. He that needs five thousand pounds to live
Is full as poor as he that needs but five.

George Herbert (1593-1633)

The Temple. The Church Porch

106. Freedom, which in no other land will thrive,
Freedom, an English subject’s sole prerogative,
Without whose charms even peace would be
But a dull, quiet slavery.

John Dryden (1631-1700)

Threnodia Augustalis (on the death of King Charles II in 1685)

107. It will never out of the flesh that’s bred in the bone.

Ben Jonson (1572-1637)

Every Man in his Humour (Downright), Act II,
Scene I

108. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Hamlet (Polonius), Act I, Scene III