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.
277. No furniture so charming as books, even if you never open them or read a single word.
Memoirs, Chap IX
278. Lernyng wythout vertue ys pernycyouse and pestylent.
England in the Reign of Henry VIII, Bk II, Ch. III
279.
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
280.
The absent Danger greater still appears,
Less fears he who is near the thing he fears.
Tragedy of Cleopatra (Rodon), Act IV, Scene I
281. Riches can’t always purchase happiness.
The Wedding (Traveller)
282.
That in the captain’s but a cholerick word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
Measure for Measure (Angelo), Act II, Scene III