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.
85. Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.
Social Aims
86.
Tir’d Nature’s sweet restorer, balmy sleep,
He, like the world, his ready visit pays
Where fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes:
Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe,
And lights on lids unsully’d with a tear.
Night Thoughts, Night I, line 1
87.
What female heart can gold despise?
What cat’s averse to fish?
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat
88. It was alway yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.
Henry IV, Pt II (Falstaff), Act I, Scene II
89. When Fortune favours, none but fools will dally.
Epilogue VIII, To The Duke of Guise
90.
One sickly sheep infects the flock,
And poisons all the rest.
Songs for Children, XXI