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.
517.
Good is best when soonest wrought,
Linger’d labours come to nought.
Loss in Delay
518.
True happiness
Consists not in the multitude of friends,
But in the worth and choice.
Cynthia’s Revels (Arete), Act III, Scene II
519.
No rock so hard but that a little wave
May beat admission in a thousand years.
The Princess
520. Some falsehood mingles with all truth.
The Golden Legend, IV
521.
Friendship’s like musick; two strings tun’d alike,
Will both stirre; though only one you strike.
Job Militant, Sec 7, Med. 7
522. When ingratitude barbs the dart of injury, the wound has double danger in it.
The School for Scandal (Jos. Surface), Act IV, Scene III