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.
463.
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises; and oft it hits,
Where hope is coldest, and despair most sits.
All’s Well that Ends Well (Helena), Act II,
Scene I
464. There’s daggers in men’s smiles.
Macbeth (Donalbain), Act II, Scene III
465.
The law is blind, and speaks in general terms;
She cannot pity where occasion serves.
The Heir (Euphues), Act IV.
466. Least said is soonest mended.
467.
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Julius Caesar (Caesar), Act II, Scene II
468.
There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.
In Memoriam, XCVI