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.
745.
Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.
He acts the third crime that defends the first.
Catiline (Cicero), Act III, Scene II
746.
Examples lead us, and we likely see;
Such as the prince is, will his people be.
Hesperides, 761.
747.
If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work.
Henry IV., Pt. I. (Prince Henry), Act I., Scene II.
748.
What female heart can gold despise?
What cat’s averse to fish?
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat
749.
No rock so hard but that a little wave
May beat admission in a thousand years.
The Princess
750.
Childhood shows the man,
As morning shows the day.
Paradise Regained, Bk IV, line 220