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.
157.
Be proud of those strong sons of thine
Who wrenched their rights from thee!
England and America
158. That evil is half cur’d whose cause we know.
Gotham, Bk III, line 632
159. Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.
Melincourt (Sir T. Paxarett), Ch. VII
160. If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
Poor Richard’s Almanac
161. You cannot get blood out of a stone.
162. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Essays, State Tamperings with Money and Banks