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.
343. Revenge proves its own executioner.
The Broken Heart (Bassanes), Act V, Scene II
344. But the tongue can no man tame.
James 3:8
345.
I holde a mouses herte nat worth a leek
That hath but oon hole for to sterte to.
(Trans. — I hold a mouse's heart not worth a leek
That has but one hole to run to.)
Wife of Bath’s Prologue, line 572
346. Virtue is like pretious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed; for Prosperity doth best discover vice; but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Essay V, Of Adversity
347. No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
The Wealth of Nations, Bk I, Ch. VIII
348.
It is a custom
More honoured in the breach than the observance.
Hamlet (Hamlet), Act I, Scene IV