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.
289. He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.
The Comedy of Errors (Dromio), Act IV, Scene III
290.
Hypocrisy the only evil that walks
Invisible, except to God alone.
Paradise Lost, Bk III, line 683
291.
Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite
The man that mocks at it and sets it light.
Richard II (Gaunt), Act I, Scene III
292. When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice, in a contemptible struggle.
On the Present Discontents
293.
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
294. In political discussion heat is in inverse proportion to knowledge.
The Growth of Freedom in the
Balkan Peninsula, p. 127