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.
235.
That man that hath a tongue I say is no man,
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
Two Gentlemen of Verona (Valentine),
Act III, Scene I
236. All hoods make not monks.
Henry VIII (Queen Katharine), Act III, Scene I
237. Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
Essay on the Faculties of the Mind
238. If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
The Mill on the Floss (Maggie), Bk VI, Ch. XIV
239. God’s mills grind slow, but sure.
Jacula Prudentum
240.
Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathom’d caves of ocean bear;
Full many a flow’r is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
Elegy in a Country Churchyard