Proverbial Wisdom
Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.
Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.
601.
True happiness
Consists not in the multitude of friends,
But in the worth and choice.
Cynthia’s Revels (Arete), Act III, Scene II
602. That only disadvantage of honest hearts, credulity.
Arcadia, Bk II
603.
An open foe may prove a curse,
But a pretended friend is worse.
Fables, Pt I, Fable XVII
604. I beseech you, let his lack of years be no impediment to let him lack a reverend estimation; for I never knew so young a body with so old a head.
Merchant of Venice (the Clerk reads), Act IV, Scene I
605. A penny sav’d’s a penny got.
The Sweet Scented Miser, line 30
606.
Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.
He acts the third crime that defends the first.
Catiline (Cicero), Act III, Scene II