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.
103. None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
Lacon, XL
104. A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.
The Water Babies, Ch. III
105. Women’s weapons, water-drops.
King Lear (Lear), Act II, Scene IV
106. The eye is traitor to the heart.
That the Eye bewrayeth, etc..
107. He pays the half who does confess the debt.
Hesperides, 226
108.
The nightingale, if she should sing by day,
When every goose is cackling, would be thought
No better a musician than the wren.
The Merchant of Venice (Portia), Act V, Scene I