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.
625.
It is a custom
More honoured in the breach than the observance.
Hamlet (Hamlet), Act I, Scene IV
626. One ear it heard, at the other out it went.
Troilus and Cresscide, Bk IV, line 435
627. None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
Lacon, XL
628. If money go before, all ways do lie open.
The Merry Wives of Windsor (Ford), Act II,
Scene II
629. Dull is the jester when the joke’s unkind.
Love of Fame, Sat. II, line 124
630.
In vaine he seeketh others to suppresse,
Who hath not learnd himselfe first to subdue.
Faerie Queene, Bk VI, Can. I, St. 41