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.
565. Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
The Mill on the Floss, Bk II, Ch. II
566.
Nothing speaks our griefe so well
As to speak nothing.
Upon the Death of a Gentleman, line 27
567. Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
The Complete Angler (Piscator), Bk. I., Ch. II.
568. That evil is half cur’d whose cause we know.
Gotham, Bk III, line 632
569.
It is a custom
More honoured in the breach than the observance.
Hamlet (Hamlet), Act I, Scene IV
570.
Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.
He acts the third crime that defends the first.
Catiline (Cicero), Act III, Scene II