Proverbial Wisdom

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

283. What female heart can gold despise?
What cat’s averse to fish?

Thomas Gray (1716-1771)

Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat

284. At lover’s perjuries,
They say, Jove laughs.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Romeo and Juliet (Juliet), Act II, Scene II

285. Grief should be the instructor of the wise ;
Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth,
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of life.

George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)

Manfred, Act I, Scene I

286. I beseech you, let his lack of years be no impediment to let him lack a reverend estimation; for I never knew so young a body with so old a head.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Merchant of Venice (the Clerk reads), Act IV, Scene I

287. If money go before, all ways do lie open.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

The Merry Wives of Windsor (Ford), Act II,
Scene II

288. A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.

John Keats (1795-1821)

Endymion, line 1