Proverbial Wisdom

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

511. The best elixir is a friend.

William Somerville (1675-1742)

The Hip

512. Repentance is a pitiful scoundrel, that never brought back a single yesterday.

Thomas Holcroft (1745-1809)

The Road to Ruin (Harry Dornton), Act II,
Scene II

513. A glorious charter, deny it who can,
Is breathed in the words, I’m an Englishman.

Eliza Cook (1818-1889)

The Englishman

514. I have no spur,
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself,
And falls on the other.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Macbeth (Macbeth), Act I, Scene VII

515. It’s a melancholy consideration indeed, that our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and that an increase of our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)

The Good-Natured Man (Honey wood), Act I

516. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

The Bible

Proverbs 15:17