Proverbial Wisdom

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

49. What cannot be cured must be endured.

Old Proverb

50. Like master, like man.

Old Proverb

51. ’Tis not in mortals to command success;
But we’ll do more, Sempronius: we’ll deserve it.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

Cato (Portius), Act I, Scene II

52. He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

Charles Lamb (1775-1834)

Essays of Elia, All Fools’ Day

53. But love is blind, and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies they themselves commit.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

The Merchant of Venice (Jessica), Act II, Scene VI

54. There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Julius Caesar (Brutus), Act IV, Scene III