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.
487. Time and tide stay no man’s pleasure.
Loss in Delay
488. Visible governments are the toys of some nations, the diseases of others, the harness of some, the burdens of more.
Sesame and Lilies, Lecture I, 42
489.
A little learning is a dang’rous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring;
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
Essay on Criticism, II, line 215
490.
’Tis good in every cause, you know,
To have two strings unto our bow.
The Ghost, Bk IV, line 1296
491.
Opinion governs all mankind,
Like the blind’s leading of the blind.
Miscellaneous Thoughts, line 269
492.
He that fights and runs away
May live to fight another day.
Musarum Deliciae