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.
643. Grief makes one hour ten.
Richard II (Bolingbroke), Act I, Scene III
644.
Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,
And ev’ry grin, so merry draws one out.
Expostulatory Odes, XV
645. The better part of valour is discretion.
Henry IV, Pt I (Falstaff), Act V, Scene IV
646.
Ah! better to love in the lowliest cot
Than pine in a palace, alone.
Chastelar
647.
Either sex alone
Is half itself and in true marriage lies
Nor equal, nor unequal.
The Princess, VII
648. A man’s vanity tells him what is honour, a man’s conscience what is justice.
Imaginary Conversations: Peter Leopold and President Du Paty (Leopold)