Proverbial Wisdom

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

583. A man must serve his time to ev’ry trade
Save censure — critics all are ready made.

George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

584. Pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed.

Robert Burns (1759-1796)

Tam o’ Shanter

585. If the Poet be born, not made, is it not because he is born to sympathise with what he has never experienced?

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

What will he Do with It? (George Morley), Bk XII,
Ch. II

586. If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

The Bible

Matthew 15:14

587. On adamant our wrongs we all engrave,
But write our benefits upon the wave.

William King (1663-1712)

The Art of Love, line 971

588. It follows not, because
The hair is rough, the dog’s a savage one.

James Sheridan Knowles (1784-1862)

The Daughter (Norris), Act I, Scene I