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.
415.
Ah, better to love in the lowliest cot
Than to reign in a palace, alone.
Chastelar
416. Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.
Emblems, Bk II
417.
He that wold not when he might,
He shall not when he wold-a.
The Baffled Knight, or Blow Away the Morning Dew
418.
There’s a new tribunal now
Higher than God’s — the educated man’s!
The Ring and the Book, X, line 1977
419.
I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at.
Othello (Iago), Act I, Scene I
420. Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.
Song, ‘Home, Sweet Home’. From his Opera, ‘Clari, The Maid of Milan’