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.
499. Life has no path so short as to renown !
King Arthur, Bk XII, CLXI
500.
Be proud of those strong sons of thine
Who wrenched their rights from thee!
England and America
501. Great men do not play stage tricks with the doctrines of life and death: only little men do that.
Sesame and Lilies, Lecture I, 20
502. That’s a bad sort of eddication as make folks unreasonable.
Scenes from Clerical Life. Amos Barton (Mr Hackit)
503. A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
The Grandmother, VIII
504.
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it do singe yourself.
Henry VIII (Norfolk), Act I, Scene I