Proverbial Wisdom

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

13. Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find;
Occasion, once past by, is bald behind.

Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)

Pyramus and Thisbe, XV

14. Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

Essay on the Faculties of the Mind

15. Eke wonder last but nine daies never in town.

Geoffrey Chaucer (?1343-1400)

Troilus and Cresseide

16. Truth is always strange, —
Stranger than fiction.

George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)

Don Juan, Can. XIV, St. 101

17. Prevention is better than cure.

Old Proverb

18. That in the captain’s but a cholerick word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Measure for Measure (Angelo), Act II, Scene III