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.
187. A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Rip Van Winkle
188. That’s a bad sort of eddication as make folks unreasonable.
Scenes from Clerical Life. Amos Barton (Mr Hackit)
189.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Hamlet (Polonius), Act I, Scene III
190. One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
Adzuma, or The Japanese Wife (Sakamune),
Act II, Scene V
191. Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.
Timon of Athens (First Senator), Act III, Scene V
192.
Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade
To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep,
Than doth a rich embroider’d canopy
To kings, that fear their subjects’ treachery?
Henry VI, Pt III (King Henry), Act II, Scene V