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.
43. Manners makyth man.
Motto. Wykeham was Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor of England
44.
What’s one man’s poison, signor,
Is another’s meat or drink.
Love’s Cure (Piorato), Act III, Scene II
45.
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
Elegy in a Country Churchyard
46. God sends us meat, the devil sends us cooks.
47. New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason, but because they are not already common.
Essay on the Human Understanding,
Dedicatory Epistle
48. The virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel.
The Vicar of Wakefield, Chap. V