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.
199.
There is one road
To peace, and that is truth, which follow ye;
Love sometimes leads astray to misery.
Julian and Maddalo
200. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
The Tatler, No. 147
201. He that will have cake out of the wheat, must tarry the grinding.
Troilus and Cressida (Pandarus), Act I, Scene I
202. Men are valued not for what they are, but what they seem to be.
Money (Sir John Vesey), Act I, Scene I
203. There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
As recorded by James Boswell in his ‘Life of Johnson’
204. No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
The Wealth of Nations, Bk I, Ch. VIII