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.
Pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed.
Tam o’ Shanter
212. Take time by the forelock.
213. He that will have cake out of the wheat, must tarry the grinding.
Troilus and Cressida (Pandarus), Act I, Scene I
214. What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
Childe Harold, Can. III, LXXXIV
215.
There’s no wound deeper than a pen can give,
It makes men living dead, and dead men live.
A Kicksey-Winsey, Pt 7
216. Virtue is like pretious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed; for Prosperity doth best discover vice; but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Essay V, Of Adversity