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. Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
The Tempest (Trinculo), Act II, Scene II
128. Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless — nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.
Felix Holt
129.
The law is blind, and speaks in general terms;
She cannot pity where occasion serves.
The Heir (Euphues), Act IV.
130.
That which we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it ; but being lack’d and lost,
Why, then we rack the value, then we find
The virtue that possession would not show us.
Much Ado about Nothing (Friar), Act IV, Scene I
131. The love of money is the root of all evil.
1 Timothy 6:10
132. Cut thy coat according to thy cloth.
Euphues and his England