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.
163.
Care that is enter’d once into the breast,
Will have the whole possession, ere it rest.
Tale of a Tub (Lady Tub), Act I, Scene IV
164. The love of money is the root of all evil.
1 Timothy 6:10
165.
If reasons were as plenty as blackberries,
I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.
Henry IV, Pt I (Falstaff), Act II, Scene IV
166.
Read Homer once, and you can read no more,
For all books else appear so mean, and poor;
Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read,
And Homer will be all the books you need.
Essay on Poetry
167.
What though youth gave love and roses.
Age still leaves us friends and wine.
Spring and Autumn
168.
A man may cry Church! Church! at ev’ry word.
With no more piety than other people —
A daw’s not reckoned a religious bird
Because it keeps a-cawing from a steeple.
Ode to Rae Wilson Esq.