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.
73. Animals are such agreeable friends — they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
Scenes of Clerical Life: Mr Gilfil’s Love Story
74. Maken vertue of necessite.
The Knight’s Tale, line 3044
75.
If trod upon, a worm
Will turn again.
The Spanish Gipsy (Constanza), Act V, Scene I
76.
What’s gone, and what’s past help,
Should be past grief.
A Winter’s Tale (Paulina), Act III, Scene II
77.
How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is
To have a thankless child.
King Lear (Lear), Act I, Scene IV
78. You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.