Proverbial Wisdom

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

427. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.

Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

Hesperides, 208

428. Truth is always strange, —
Stranger than fiction.

George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)

Don Juan, Can. XIV, St. 101

429. Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

Essay on the Faculties of the Mind

430. Peace hath her victories
No less renowned than war.

John Milton (1608-1674)

Sonnet XIX

431. Good, the more
Communicated, more abundant grows.

John Milton (1608-1674)

Paradise Lost, Bk I, line 371

432. Nice customs court’sy to great kings.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Henry V (King Henry), Act V, Scene II