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.
655. Love’s tongue is in the eyes.
Piscatorie Eclogues, V, St. 13
656.
Can wealth give happiness? look round and see
What gay distress! what splendid misery!
Whatever Fortunes lavishly can pour,
The mind annihilates and calls for more.
Love of Fame, Sat. V, line 393
657. One to-day is worth two to-morrows.
Poor Richard’s Almanac
658. He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude, and enjoy himself independent of its favour.
Spectator, No. 554
659.
How sour sweet music is,
When time is broke, and no proportion kept!
So is it in the music of men’s lives.
Richard II (Richard), Act V, Scene V
660. Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.
Emblems, Bk II