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.
511. Men’s behaviour should be like their apparell, not too strait, or point device, but free for exercise or motion.
Essay LII, Of Ceremonies and Respects
512. It’s ill livin’ in a hen-roost for them as doesn’t like fleas.
Adam Bede (Mrs Poyser)
513.
Grief should be the instructor of the wise ;
Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth,
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of life.
Manfred, Act I, Scene I
514. In the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Proverbs 11:14
515. ’Tis easier to advise ‘bear up,’ than bear.
Balaustion’s Adventure
516.
That in the captain’s but a cholerick word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
Measure for Measure (Angelo), Act II, Scene III