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.
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it do singe yourself.
Henry VIII (Norfolk), Act I, Scene I
608. Sir, hell is paved with good intentions.
As given by James Boswell, in his Life of Johnson
609. Nice customs court’sy to great kings.
Henry V (King Henry), Act V, Scene II
610. Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper-chamber, if he has common-sense on the ground-floor.
The Poet at the Breakfast Table, V
611.
Our discontent is from comparison,
Were better states unseen, each man would like his own.
The Consolation, St. 2
612.
Treason doth never prosper; what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Epigrams