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.
211.
It is a custom
More honoured in the breach than the observance.
Hamlet (Hamlet), Act I, Scene IV
212. It’s ill livin’ in a hen-roost for them as doesn’t like fleas.
Adam Bede (Mrs Poyser)
213.
Curiosity
Does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
Ode on Chair made of Sir F. Drake’s Ship, IV
214.
These are the English arts, these we profess,
To be the same in misery and success;
To teach oppressors laws, assist the good,
Relieve the wretched, and subdue the proud.
The Man of Honour
215.
A glorious charter, deny it who can,
Is breathed in the words, I’m an Englishman.
The Englishman
216. Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
The Virtuous Lady. Of Books