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.
445.
He that mounts him on the swiftest hope,
Shall often run his courser to a stand.
Adaptation of Shakespeare’s Richard III (King Henry), Act I,
Scene I
446. Set a thief to catch a thief.
447. Poverty is a bully if you are afraid of her, or truckle to her. Poverty is good-natured enough if you meet her like a man.
Philip, Ch. XIX
448.
’Tis better to have loved and lost,
Than never to have loved at all.
In Memoriam, XXVII
449.
Laws are vain, by which we right enjoy,
If kings unquestioned can those laws destroy.
Absalom and Achitophel, Pt I, line 763
450. Damn with faint praise.
Prologue to the Satires