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.
793.
Fame, like water, bears up the lighter things,
And lets the weighty sink.
The Adventures of Five Hours (Don Antonio), Act II.
794. Society in poverty is better than solitude in wealth.
Melincourt (Mr Forrester), Ch. XII
795. It will never out of the flesh that’s bred in the bone.
Every Man in his Humour (Downright), Act II,
Scene I
796. Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
Pericles (Pericles), Act I, Scene I
797. Young twigges are sooner bent than old trees.
Euphues and his England
798. Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
Lacon, CCXVII