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.
The bad man’s cunning still prepares the way
For its own outwitting.
Zapolya, Sc. I
242.
How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is
To have a thankless child.
King Lear (Lear), Act I, Scene IV
243.
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises; and oft it hits,
Where hope is coldest, and despair most sits.
All’s Well that Ends Well (Helena), Act II,
Scene I
244.
Breathes there a man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself has said,
This is my own, my native land ?
Whose heart hath ne’er within him burn’d,
As home his footsteps he hath turn’d,
From wandering on a foreign strand?
The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Can. VI, I
245. The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin deep saying.
Essays, Personal Beauty
246. Two heads are better than one.
Proverbs, Bk I, Chap. IX