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.
49. Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
Silas Marner (Nancy), Chap. XVIII
50.
Truth is always strange, —
Stranger than fiction.
Don Juan, Can. XIV, St. 101
51. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
Hamlet (Hamlet), Act III, Scene II
52.
Ah, better to love in the lowliest cot
Than to reign in a palace, alone.
Chastelar
53.
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Julius Caesar (Caesar), Act II, Scene II
54. Nicknames and whippings, when they are once laid on, no one has discovered how to take off.
Imaginary Conversations,
Peter Leopold and President Du Paty