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.
139. Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
Essay on Criticism, Pt III, line 574
140. They stumble, that run fast.
Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence), Act II,
Scene III
141. Time and tide stay no man’s pleasure.
Loss in Delay
142. Language is the dress of thought.
Lives of the Poets, Cowley
143. I beseech you, let his lack of years be no impediment to let him lack a reverend estimation; for I never knew so young a body with so old a head.
Merchant of Venice (the Clerk reads), Act IV, Scene I
144.
We must be free or die, who speak the tongue
That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold
Which Milton held.
Poems to National Independence, Pt I, XVI