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.
91. There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
As recorded by James Boswell in his ‘Life of Johnson’
92. One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
Hamlet (Hamlet), Act I, Scene V
93. It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
Silas Marner, Ch. XII
94.
Let Hercules himself do what he may,
The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.
Hamlet (Hamlet), Act V, Scene I
95.
Childhood shows the man,
As morning shows the day.
Paradise Regained, Bk IV, line 220
96.
Progress is
The law of life, man is not man as yet.
Paracelsus, V