Proverbial Wisdom

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

217. Plenty and peace breeds cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Cymbeline (Imogen), Act III, Scene VI

218. When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice, in a contemptible struggle.

Edmund Burke (1730-1797)

On the Present Discontents

219. Oppression, that sharp two-edged sword,
That others wounds, and wounds likewise his Lord.

Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)

Civil War, Bk VI, XIV

220. ’Tis when the wound is stiffening with the cold,
The warrior first feels pain; ’tis when the heat
And fiery fever of the soul is past,
The sinner feels remorse.

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

The Monastery, Chap. XXIII

221. The burnt child dreads the fire.

Ben Jonson (1572-1637)

The Devil is an Ass (Fitzdottrell), Act I,
Scene II

222. How ill white hairs become a fool and jester.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Henry IV, Pt. II (King), Act V, Scene V