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.
589. Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.
Proverbs, Bk I, Ch. XI
590.
Princes and lords are but the breath of kings,
An honest man’s the noblest work of God.
The Cotter’s Saturday Night
591. Every one can master a grief, but he that has it.
Much Ado about Nothing (Benedick), Act III,
Scene II
592.
The absent Danger greater still appears,
Less fears he who is near the thing he fears.
Tragedy of Cleopatra (Rodon), Act IV, Scene I
593.
He that wold not when he might,
He shall not when he wold-a.
The Baffled Knight, or Blow Away the Morning Dew
594.
How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is
To have a thankless child.
King Lear (Lear), Act I, Scene IV