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.
187.
A jest’s prosperity lies in the ear
Of him that hears it, never in the tongue
Of him that makes it.
Love’s Labour Lost (Rosaline), Act V, Sc. II
188.
Be cheerful; wipe thine eyes:
Some falls are means the happier to arise.
Cymbeline (Lucius), Act IV, Scene II
189.
Heaven forfend that vengeance e’er should strike,
Ere justice doomed the blow.
The Fall of Robespierre, Act II
190.
No rock so hard but that a little wave
May beat admission in a thousand years.
The Princess
191.
The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the
Sabbath.
Mark 2:27
192. A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of Pictures; and talke but a tinckling Cymball, where there is no love.
Essay XXVII, Of Friendship.