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.
121. It’s a melancholy consideration indeed, that our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and that an increase of our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.
The Good-Natured Man (Honey wood), Act I
122. Man proposeth, God disposeth.
Jacula Prudentum
123. We must take our poets as we do our meals — as they are served up to us.
Obiter Dicta, Mr Browning’s Poetry
124. Practise what you preach.
Love of Fame, Sat. III, line 48
125.
That man that hath a tongue I say is no man,
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
Two Gentlemen of Verona (Valentine),
Act III, Scene I
126. Nice customs court’sy to great kings.
Henry V (King Henry), Act V, Scene II