Proverbial Wisdom

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

229. Time and tide stay no man’s pleasure.

Robert Southwell (?1561-1595)

Loss in Delay

230. The cord breaketh at the last by the weakest pull.

Old Spanish Proverb

Quoted by Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626).
Essay XV, Of Seditions and Troubles

231. Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most, always like it the least.

Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773)

Letter to his Son, 29th January, 1748

232. In Folly’s cup still laughs the bubble, Joy.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

Essay on Man, Ep. II, line 288

233. There is no error to be named, which has not had its professors; and a man shall never want crooked paths to walk in, if he thinks that he is in the right way, wherever he has the footsteps of others to follow.

John Locke (1632-1704)

Essay on the Hitman Understanding, Bk IV, Chap. XX,
Sec. 17

234. A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone.

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

Essay on the Faculties of the Mind