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.
889.
It is a custom
More honoured in the breach than the observance.
Hamlet (Hamlet), Act I, Scene IV
890. They only babble who practise not reflection.
Pizarro (Elvira), Act I, Scene I
891.
A good man should and must
Sit rather down with loss, than rise unjust.
Sejanus (Sabinus), Act IV, Scene III
892.
For Luff is off sa mekill mycht,
That it all paynys makis lycht.
(Trans. — Love is of such great might,
That it all pains makes light.)
The Bruce, Bk II, line 520
893. You may know him by his company.
Love in a Wood (Sir Simon), Act I, Scene I
894.
Dearer is love than life, and fame than gold;
But dearer than them both your faith once plighted hold.
Faerie Queene, Bk V, Can. XI, St. 63