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.
169. When the stool’s rotten enough, no matter who sits on it.
Scenes from Clerical Life, Amos Barton (Mr Hackit)
170.
How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Othello (Iago), Act II, Scene III
171.
Laws are vain, by which we right enjoy,
If kings unquestioned can those laws destroy.
Absalom and Achitophel, Pt I, line 763
172. The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
The Mill on the Floss, Bk VI, Ch. III
173.
There is no vice so simple, but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
The Merchant of Venice (Bassanio), Act III,
Scene II
174. Men are valued not for what they are, but what they seem to be.
Money (Sir John Vesey), Act I, Scene I