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.
631.
It is excellent
To have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.
Measure for Measure (Isabella), Act II, Scene II
632.
’Tis hard for kings to steer an equal course,
And they who banish one oft gain a worse.
Tarquin and Tullia
633. Loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud.
Sonnet, XXXV.
634. A patient man’s a pattern for a king.
The Honest Whore, Pt II (Duke), last line
635.
Nothing speaks our griefe so well
As to speak nothing.
Upon the Death of a Gentleman, line 27
636.
Society is now one polish’d horde,
Form’d of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
Don Juan, Can. VIII, St. 95