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.
481.
Ill news hath wings, and with the wind doth go;
Comfort’s a cripple, and comes ever slow.
The Baron’s Wars, Bk II, XXVIII
482.
That in the captain’s but a cholerick word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
Measure for Measure (Angelo), Act II, Scene III
483. He jests at scars, that never felt a wound.
Romeo and Juliet (Romeo), Act II, Scene II
484.
A day, an hour of virtuous liberty
Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Cato (Cato), Act II, Scene I
485. It was alway yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.
Henry IV, Pt II (Falstaff), Act I, Scene II
486. You cannot get blood out of a stone.