Proverbial Wisdom

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

493. Every difficulty yields to the enterprising.

Joseph George Holman (1764-1817)

The Votary of Wealth (Leonard), Act IV., Scene I.

494. You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.

Old Proverb

495. When Fortune favours, none but fools will dally.

John Dryden (1631-1700)

Epilogue VIII, To The Duke of Guise

496. Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises; and oft it hits,
Where hope is coldest, and despair most sits.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

All’s Well that Ends Well (Helena), Act II,
Scene I

497. What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?

George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)

Childe Harold, Can. III, LXXXIV

498. Youth is subject to sudden fits of despondency.
Its hopes go up and down like a bucket in a draw-well.

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet (1860-1937)

Better Dead, Ch. III