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. He that will rise to the top of a high ladder must go up, not leap up.
The Dumb Knight (Prate), Act I, Scene I
2. Set a thief to catch a thief.
3.
Let Hercules himself do what he may,
The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.
Hamlet (Hamlet), Act V, Scene I
4.
The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the
Sabbath.
Mark 2:27
5. Labour is but refreshment from repose.
Greenland, Can. 11
6. Physician, heal thyself.
Luke 4:23