Proverbial Wisdom

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

211. One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Sir Edwin Arnold (1832-1904)

Adzuma, or The Japanese Wife (Sakamune),
Act II, Scene V

212. There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Julius Caesar (Brutus), Act IV, Scene III

213. My poverty but not my will consents.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Romeo and Juliet (Apothecary), Act V, Scene I

214. A man may well bring a horse to the water,
But he cannot make him drinke without he will.

John Heywood (?1497-?1580)

Proverbs, Bk I Chap. XI

215. Let’s fear no storm before we feel a show’r.

Michael Drayton (1563-1631)

The Baron’s Wars, Bk III, LV

216. God’s mills grind slow, but sure.

George Herbert (1593-1633)

Jacula Prudentum