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.
745.
Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old;
It is the rust we value, not the gold.
Imitations of Horace, Bk II, Ep. I
746.
Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find;
Occasion, once past by, is bald behind.
Pyramus and Thisbe, XV
747. Poverty is a bully if you are afraid of her, or truckle to her. Poverty is good-natured enough if you meet her like a man.
Philip, Ch. XIX
748.
Our deeds still travel with us from afar,
And what we have been makes us what we are.
Middlemarch, Ch. LXX, head lines
749. A bad excuse is better, they say, than none at all.
The Schoole of Abuse
750. If thou would’st be happy, learn to please.
Solomon, Bk II, line 266