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. Count not your chickens before they be hatch’d.
494.
The brave
Die never. Being deathless, they but change
Their country’s arms, for more, their country’s heart.
Festus (Festus), V
495. His heart runs away with his head.
Who Wants a Guinea? (Heartly), Act I, Scene I
496.
A burthen’d conscience
Will never need a hangman.
Laws of Candy (Cassilane), Act V, Scene I
497. I beseech you, let his lack of years be no impediment to let him lack a reverend estimation; for I never knew so young a body with so old a head.
Merchant of Venice (the Clerk reads), Act IV, Scene I
498.
Can wealth give happiness? look round and see
What gay distress! what splendid misery!
Whatever Fortunes lavishly can pour,
The mind annihilates and calls for more.
Love of Fame, Sat. V, line 393