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.
667.
A custom
More honour’d in the breach than the observance.
Hamlet (Hamlet), Act I, Scene IV
668. A man’s vanity tells him what is honour, a man’s conscience what is justice.
Imaginary Conversations: Peter Leopold and President Du Paty (Leopold)
669.
So many are
The sufferings which no human aid can reach,
It needs must be a duty doubly sweet
To heal the few we can.
Zapolya, Pt II
670. His heart runs away with his head.
Who Wants a Guinea? (Heartly), Act I, Scene I
671.
True happiness
Consists not in the multitude of friends,
But in the worth and choice.
Cynthia’s Revels (Arete), Act III, Scene II
672.
It’s gude to be merry and wise,
It’s gude to be honest and true,
And afore you’re off with the old love
It’s best to be on wi’ the new.