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. A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.
Endymion, line 1
2. Manners makyth man.
Motto. Wykeham was Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor of England
3.
Dearer is love than life, and fame than gold;
But dearer than them both your faith once plighted hold.
Faerie Queene, Bk V, Can. XI, St. 63
4.
One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name.
Old Mortality, Ch. XXXIV
5. He that first cries out ‘Stop thief!’ is often he that has stolen the treasure.
Love for Love (Scandal), Act III, Scene XIV
6. Cut thy coat according to thy cloth.
Euphues and his England