Proverbial Wisdom

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

217. Love me, love my dog.

Old Proverb

218. Prevention is better than cure.

Old Proverb

219. Who reproves the lame, must go upright.

Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)

Civil War, Bk III, X

220. We look before and after, and pine for what is not.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

Ode to a Skylark

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

George Chapman (1559-1634)

Byron’s Conspiracie, Act III, Scene I

222. The man who does all he can, in a low station, is more a hero than he who omits any worthy action he is able to accomplish in a great one.

Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729)

Spectator, No. 248