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. Music, the mosaic of the air.
Music’s Empire, 17
566. Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.
Melincourt (Sir T. Paxarett), Ch. VII
567.
He that, to his prejudice, will do
A noble action and a gen’rous too,
Deserves to wear a more resplendent crown
Than he that hath a thousand battles won.
Cruelty and Lust, line 399
568. If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
Poor Richard’s Almanac
569.
Defer not till to-morrow to be wise,
To-morrow’s sun to thee may never rise.
Letter to Cobham
570. Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.
Lacon, CCXLV