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.
127. Many little leaks may sink a ship.
Holy and Profane States; Holy State: The Good Servant.
128. Nicknames and whippings, when they are once laid on, no one has discovered how to take off.
Imaginary Conversations,
Peter Leopold and President Du Paty
129. Best things carry’d to excess are wrong.
The Rosciad, line 1039
130. ‘Men are more eloquent than women made.’ ‘But women are more powerful to persuade.’
Amyntas, Prologue
131.
Weariness
Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth
Finds the down pillow hard.
Cymbeline (Belarius), Act III, Scene VI
132.
What’s gone, and what’s past help,
Should be past grief.
A Winter’s Tale (Paulina), Act III, Scene II