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.
On this page you will a find a selection of brief sayings, including short quotations from English literature as well as traditional proverbs. Choose a saying, and try to express the idea in different words as much as you can. In what circumstances might you use this quotation?
Note: Many of these proverbs and quotations are in archaic English, and neither grammar nor spelling has been modernised.
1.
It is the bright day, that brings forth the adder;
And that craves wary walking.
Julius Caesar (Brutus), Act II, Scene I
2. What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
Childe Harold, Can. III, LXXXIV
3. Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.
Proverbs, Bk I, Ch. XI
4. Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
Every Man Out of his Humour (Carlo Buffone),
Act II, Scene II
5.
Bold knaves thrive, without one grain of sense.
But good men starve for want of impudence.
Epilogue XII, To “Constantine the Great”
6. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Matthew 6:34