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.
133.
Can wealth give happiness? look round and see
What gay distress! what splendid misery!
Whatever Fortunes lavishly can pour,
The mind annihilates and calls for more.
Love of Fame, Sat. V, line 393
134. Wit’s whetstone, Want.
Penniless Pilgrimage.
135. Whatsoever a man soweth, that also shall he reap.
Galatians 6:7
136.
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
137.
Youth is subject to sudden fits of despondency.
Its hopes go up and down like a bucket in a draw-well.
Better Dead, Ch. III
138. Virtue’s its own reward.
The Provoked Wife (Lady Brute), Act I, Scene I