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.
739.
Fashion too often makes a monstrous noise,
Bids us, a fickle jade, like fools adore
The poorest trash, the meanest toys.
Odes to the Royal Academicians, XI
740. We look before and after, and pine for what is not.
Ode to a Skylark
741. Each woman is a brief of womankind.
A Wife, line 1
742.
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to scourge us.
King Lear (Edgar), Act V, Scene III
743. Liars should have good memories.
744. It is too late to shutte the stable door when the steede is stolne.
Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit