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.
85.
Good is best when soonest wrought,
Linger’d labours come to nought.
Loss in Delay
86. What signifies a few foolish angry words? they don’t break bones, nor give black eyes.
The Militant Couple (Bellair)
87.
Read Homer once, and you can read no more,
For all books else appear so mean, and poor;
Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read,
And Homer will be all the books you need.
Essay on Poetry
88.
Great actions are not always true sons
Of great and mighty resolutions.
Hudibras, Pt I, Can. I, line 885
89. There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
Essay XXXI, of Suspicion
90.
Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite
The man that mocks at it and sets it light.
Richard II (Gaunt), Act I, Scene III