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.
637. 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
638. Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.
Essay XX, Of Empire
639. They who possess the prince possess the laws.
Absalom and Achitophel, Pt I, line 476
640.
Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in,
Bear’t that the opposed may beware of thee.
Hamlet (Polonius), Act I, Scene III
641.
’Tis hard for kings to steer an equal course,
And they who banish one oft gain a worse.
Tarquin and Tullia
642. Out of sight, out of minde.
Proverbs, Bk I, Chap. II