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.
13.
Bold knaves thrive, without one grain of sense.
But good men starve for want of impudence.
Epilogue XII, To “Constantine the Great”
14. Men take more pains to lose themselves than would be requisite to keep them in the right road.
The Broad Stone of Honour, Godefridus, X
15. Who bravely dares, must sometimes risk a fall.
Advice (Friend), line 208
16.
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
17. We must take our poets as we do our meals — as they are served up to us.
Obiter Dicta, Mr Browning’s Poetry
18. Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
As recorded by James Boswell in his ‘Life of Johnson’