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.
733. It was alway yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.
Henry IV, Pt II (Falstaff), Act I, Scene II
734.
The absent Danger greater still appears,
Less fears he who is near the thing he fears.
Tragedy of Cleopatra (Rodon), Act IV, Scene I
735.
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
Julius Caesar (Brutus), Act IV, Scene III
736.
Your evidence was lame:— proceed:
Come, help your lame dog o’er the stile.
Poems, Upon the Horrid Plot etc. (Whig and Tory)
737. Great men are seldom over scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
Pickwick, Ch. II
738. Grief makes one hour ten.
Richard II (Bolingbroke), Act I, Scene III