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. Damn with faint praise.
Prologue to the Satires
344. The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
The Mill on the Floss, Bk VI, Ch. III
345. Poison itself is a remedy in some diseases, and there is nothing so evil but what may be converted to purposes of good.
The Broad Stone of Honour. Godefridus, XII
346.
That which we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it ; but being lack’d and lost,
Why, then we rack the value, then we find
The virtue that possession would not show us.
Much Ado about Nothing (Friar), Act IV, Scene I
347. No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.
Romola (Pietro Cennini), Bk I, Ch. IX
348.
It’s gude to be merry and wise,
It’s gude to be honest and true,
And afore you’re off with the old love
It’s best to be on wi’ the new.