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.
109.
Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead,
Excessive grief the enemy to the living.
All’s Well that Ends Well (Lafeu), Act I, Scene I
110.
They who in quarrels interpose,
Must often wipe a bloody nose.
Fables, Pt I, XXXIV
111.
Treason doth never prosper; what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Epigrams
112. Love stoops, as fondly as he soars.
Poems of the Fancy, XVIII.
113. Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.
Proverbs, Bk I, Ch. XI
114.
True friendship’s laws are by this rule expressed,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
Homer’s Odyssey, Bk XV, line 83