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.
127.
It’s gude to be merry and wise,
It’s gude to be honest and true,
And afore you’re off with the old love
It’s best to be on wi’ the new.
128. Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless — nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.
Felix Holt
129.
It is a custom
More honoured in the breach than the observance.
Hamlet (Hamlet), Act I, Scene IV
130. He makes no friend who never made a foe.
Launcelot and Elaine.
131. Trust not him that hath once broken faith.
Henry VI, Pt III (Queen Elizabeth),
Act IV, Scene IV
132. Men’s behaviour should be like their apparell, not too strait, or point device, but free for exercise or motion.
Essay LII, Of Ceremonies and Respects