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.
145.
Beauties are tyrants, and if they can reign
They have no feeling for their subject’s pain;
Their victim’s anguish gives their charms applause,
And their chief glory is the woe they cause.
The Patron
146. Better be happie than wise.
Proverbs, Bk II, Ch. VI
147.
Care that is enter’d once into the breast,
Will have the whole possession, ere it rest.
Tale of a Tub (Lady Tub), Act I, Scene IV
148. A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
The Grandmother, VIII
149. Cut thy coat according to thy cloth.
Euphues and his England
150. Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
Romola, Bk III, Ch. XLVIII