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.
355. Animals are such agreeable friends — they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
Scenes of Clerical Life: Mr Gilfil’s Love Story
356. Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings.
Letter to Comitess of Bute.
357. When Fortune favours, none but fools will dally.
Epilogue VIII, To The Duke of Guise
358. Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Letters on the Regicide Peace, III, 1797
359.
The bad man’s cunning still prepares the way
For its own outwitting.
Zapolya, Sc. I
360. In Folly’s cup still laughs the bubble, Joy.
Essay on Man, Ep. II, line 288