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.
But love is blind, and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies they themselves commit.
The Merchant of Venice (Jessica), Act II, Scene VI
2. No furniture so charming as books, even if you never open them or read a single word.
Memoirs, Chap IX
3. A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Rip Van Winkle
4. No crime’s so great as daring to excel.
Epistle to Hogarth, line 52
5.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
Hamlet (Polonius), Act I, Scene III
6. Take time by the forelock.