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.
151. It’s ill livin’ in a hen-roost for them as doesn’t like fleas.
Adam Bede (Mrs Poyser)
152. He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.
Essays of Elia, All Fools’ Day
153. He pays the half who does confess the debt.
Hesperides, 226
154.
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
155.
Dearer is love than life, and fame than gold;
But dearer than them both your faith once plighted hold.
Faerie Queene, Bk V, Can. XI, St. 63
156. Deeds let escape are never to be done.
Sordello, Bk III