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.
1345. Make the doors upon a woman’s wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that and ’twill out at the key-hole; stop that, ’twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney.
As You Like It (Rosalind), Act IV, Scene I
1346.
Be not too rigidly censorious,
A string may jar in the best master’s hand,
And the most skilful archer miss his aim; —
I would not quarrel with a slight mistake.
Art of Poetry (translated from Horace), line 388
1347.
Who has not known ill fortune, never knew
Himself or his own virtue.
Alfred, Act I, Scene I
1348. You may know him by his company.
Love in a Wood (Sir Simon), Act I, Scene I
1349. Hunger makes coarse meats delicate.
Hesperides, 107
1350. A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone.
Essay on the Faculties of the Mind