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.
439. Wives are young men’s mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men’s nurses.
Essay VIII, Of Marriage and Single Life
440. Not to put too fine a point upon it.
Bleak House (Mr Snagsby), Chap. XI
441. That’s a bad sort of eddication as make folks unreasonable.
Scenes from Clerical Life. Amos Barton (Mr Hackit)
442.
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose,
By any other name would smell as sweet.
Romeo and Juliet (Juliet), Act II, Scene II
443. A man’s vanity tells him what is honour, a man’s conscience what is justice.
Imaginary Conversations: Peter Leopold and President Du Paty (Leopold)
444. What is aught, but as ’tis valued?
Troilus and Cressida (Troilus), Act II, Scene II