Proverbial Wisdom

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

529. God sends us meat, the devil sends us cooks.

Old Proverb

530. He is not valiant that dares die,
But he that boldly bears calamity.

Philip Massinger (1583-1640)

The Maid of Honour, Act IV, Scene III

531. Oh! what a crowded world one moment may contain!

Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835)

The Last Constantine, LIX

532. What is aught, but as ’tis valued?

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Troilus and Cressida (Troilus), Act II, Scene II

533. Examples lead us, and we likely see;
Such as the prince is, will his people be.

Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

Hesperides, 761.

534. Nicknames and whippings, when they are once laid on, no one has discovered how to take off.

Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)

Imaginary Conversations,
Peter Leopold and President Du Paty