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.
55.
For Luff is off sa mekill mycht,
That it all paynys makis lycht.
(Trans. — Love is of such great might,
That it all pains makes light.)
The Bruce, Bk II, line 520
56. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
Hamlet (Hamlet), Act III, Scene II
57.
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
Julius Caesar (Brutus), Act IV, Scene III
58.
Bold knaves thrive, without one grain of sense.
But good men starve for want of impudence.
Epilogue XII, To “Constantine the Great”
59.
The nightingale, if she should sing by day,
When every goose is cackling, would be thought
No better a musician than the wren.
The Merchant of Venice (Portia), Act V, Scene I
60. What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
Childe Harold, Can. III, LXXXIV