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.
661.
Society is now one polish’d horde,
Form’d of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
Don Juan, Can. VIII, St. 95
662. They who possess the prince possess the laws.
Absalom and Achitophel, Pt I, line 476
663. Curses, like young chickens, come home to roost.
The Curse of Kehama
664. The bitter goes before the sweet. Yea, and for as much as it doth, it makes the sweet the sweeter.
Pilgrim’s Progress (Timorous), Pt II
665. Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
Romola, Bk III, Ch. XLVIII
666. We have scotch’d the snake, not kill’d it.
Macbeth (Macbeth), Act III, Scene II