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. Men’s behaviour should be like their apparell, not too strait, or point device, but free for exercise or motion.
Essay LII, Of Ceremonies and Respects
398.
Be not too rigidly censorious,
A string may jar in the best master’s hand,
And the most skilful archer miss his aim; —
I would not quarrel with a slight mistake.
Art of Poetry (translated from Horace), line 388
399. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Henry IV, Pt II (King Henry), Act III, Scene I
400. The burnt child dreads the fire.
The Devil is an Ass (Fitzdottrell), Act I,
Scene II
401.
Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing;
’Twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.
Othello (Iago), Act III, Scene III
402.
Tir’d Nature’s sweet restorer, balmy sleep,
He, like the world, his ready visit pays
Where fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes:
Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe,
And lights on lids unsully’d with a tear.
Night Thoughts, Night I, line 1