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.
571. That’s a bad sort of eddication as make folks unreasonable.
Scenes from Clerical Life. Amos Barton (Mr Hackit)
572.
Grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
The Old Bachelor (Sharper), Act V, Scene VIII
573.
Freedom, which in no other land will thrive,
Freedom, an English subject’s sole prerogative,
Without whose charms even peace would be
But a dull, quiet slavery.
Threnodia Augustalis (on the death of King Charles II in 1685)
574.
Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite
The man that mocks at it and sets it light.
Richard II (Gaunt), Act I, Scene III
575.
Reputation is what men and women think of us.
Character is what God and angels know of us.
576. There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.
The Drummer (Vellum), Act V, Scene I