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.
31. You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
32. 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
33. Men’s words are ever bolder than their deeds.
Piccolomini, Act I, Scene IV
34. What is aught, but as ’tis valued?
Troilus and Cressida (Troilus), Act II, Scene II
35. Can man be free if woman be a slave?
The Revolt of Islam, II, XLIII
36.
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British
Public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
Essay on Morres’ Life of Lord Byron