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.
583. Great talkers are never great doers.
Blurt, Master-Constable (Third Lady), Act Scene I
584. Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
Silas Marner (Nancy), Chap. XVIII
585. Hunger makes coarse meats delicate.
Hesperides, 107
586. The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato, — the only good belonging to him is under ground.
(Attributed)
587. It’s a melancholy consideration indeed, that our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and that an increase of our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.
The Good-Natured Man (Honey wood), Act I
588. The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin deep saying.
Essays, Personal Beauty