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.
607. Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one’s horse as he is leaping.
Guesses at Truth
608.
Accursed is the march of that glory
Which treads o’er the hearts of the free.
Irish Melodies, Forget not the Fiel
609. Man seeks his own good at the whole world’s cost.
Luria (Braccio), Act I.
610. One cannot eat one’s cake and have it too.
Thomas and Sally
611.
Unbidden guests
Are often welcomest when they are gone.
Henry VI, Pt I (Bedford), Act II, Scene II
612. For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth: Nor is any poison so deadly, that it serveth not some wholesome use.
Proverbial Philosophy, Of Truth in Things False, 3