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.
397. Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
Twelfth Night (Clown), Act I, Scene V
398.
Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes
Lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes:
Antiquity and birth are needless here;
’Tis impudence and money makes a peer.
The True-born Englishman, Pt I
399.
Generous commerce binds
The round of nations in a golden chain.
Seasons, Summer, line 138
400. Walls have ears.
Love in a Wood (Gripe), Act III., Scene III..
401.
A custom
More honour’d in the breach than the observance.
Hamlet (Hamlet), Act I, Scene IV
402.
The bad man’s cunning still prepares the way
For its own outwitting.
Zapolya, Sc. I