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.
379. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Proverbs 15:17
380. You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
381. New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason, but because they are not already common.
Essay on the Human Understanding,
Dedicatory Epistle
382. Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest.
Felix Holt, Ch. XXX
383.
The simplest pleasures must welcome be
When a friendly hand prepares them.
They may talk of scenes that are bright and fair
384. If money go before, all ways do lie open.
The Merry Wives of Windsor (Ford), Act II,
Scene II