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.
181. ‘Men are more eloquent than women made.’ ‘But women are more powerful to persuade.’
Amyntas, Prologue
182. Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
Henry IV, Pt II (Suffolk), Act III, Scene I
183. One brave deed makes no hero.
The Hero
184. Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
Essay on the Faculties of the Mind
185.
He that, to his prejudice, will do
A noble action and a gen’rous too,
Deserves to wear a more resplendent crown
Than he that hath a thousand battles won.
Cruelty and Lust, line 399
186. The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.