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.
361. Men take more pains to lose themselves than would be requisite to keep them in the right road.
The Broad Stone of Honour, Godefridus, X
362. The better part of valour is discretion.
Henry IV, Pt I (Falstaff), Act V, Scene IV
363. Plenty, as well as want, can separate friends.
Davideis, Bk III, line 205
364.
Hypocrisy the only evil that walks
Invisible, except to God alone.
Paradise Lost, Bk III, line 683
365.
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
366. Who is worse shod than the shoemaker’s wife?
Proverbs, Bk I, Chap. XI