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.
679. Poverty is a bully if you are afraid of her, or truckle to her. Poverty is good-natured enough if you meet her like a man.
Philip, Ch. XIX
680.
Care that is enter’d once into the breast,
Will have the whole possession, ere it rest.
Tale of a Tub (Lady Tub), Act I, Scene IV
681. He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.
The Comedy of Errors (Dromio), Act IV, Scene III
682.
Marriage is a matter of more worth
Than to be dealt in by attorneyship.
Henry VI, Pt I (Suffolk), Act V, Scene VI
683. Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings.
Letter to Comitess of Bute.
684. Industry is a loadstone to draw all good things.
Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader.