Proverbial Wisdom

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

181. Prevention is better than cure.

Old Proverb

182. Our charity begins at home,
And mostly ends where it begins.

Horace Smith (1779-1849)

Horace in London, Bk II, Ode XV

183. Flatterers looke like friends, as wolves, like dogges.

George Chapman (1559-1634)

Byron’s Conspiracie, Act III, Scene I

184. The love of money is the root of all evil.

The Bible

1 Timothy 6:10

185. Friends are as dangerous as enemies.

Thomas Penson De Quincey (1785-1859)

Essay on Schlosser’s Literary History

186. It’s a melancholy consideration indeed, that our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and that an increase of our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)

The Good-Natured Man (Honey wood), Act I