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.
241. Flatterers looke like friends, as wolves, like dogges.
Byron’s Conspiracie, Act III, Scene I
242. There is no felicity upon earth, which carries not its counterpoise of misfortunes; no happiness which mounts so high, which is not depressed by some calamity.
Contemplation of the State of Man, Bk I, Chap. II
243.
Defer not till to-morrow to be wise,
To-morrow’s sun to thee may never rise.
Letter to Cobham
244. His heart runs away with his head.
Who Wants a Guinea? (Heartly), Act I, Scene I
245. Rich, beyond the dreams of avarice.
As recorded in James Boswell’s ‘Life of Johnson’
246. More childish valourous than manly wise.
Tamburlaine the Great, Pt II (Calyphas), Act IV,
Scene I