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.
139.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions!
Hamlet (King), Act IV, Scene V
140. New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason, but because they are not already common.
Essay on the Human Understanding,
Dedicatory Epistle
141. Wounds are ill cured with a good intent.
Cat and Puss, line 108
142.
To be, or not to be, — that is the question —
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?
Hamlet (Hamlet), Act III, Scene I
143.
All who joy would win
Must share it, — Happiness was born a twin.
Don Juan, Can. II, St. 172
144.
My salad days,
When I was green in judgment.
Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra), Act I, Scene V