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.
493. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Proverbs 15:17
494.
O what’s a table richly spread,
Without a woman at its head!
The Progress of Discontent
495.
Childhood shows the man,
As morning shows the day.
Paradise Regained, Bk IV, line 220
496. The colt that’s back’d and burden’d being young, Loseth his pride, and never waxeth strong.
Venus and Adonis, St. 70
497. A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone.
Essay on the Faculties of the Mind
498.
Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,
And ev’ry grin, so merry draws one out.
Expostulatory Odes, XV