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.
211. One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
Adzuma, or The Japanese Wife (Sakamune),
Act II, Scene V
212.
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
Julius Caesar (Brutus), Act IV, Scene III
213. My poverty but not my will consents.
Romeo and Juliet (Apothecary), Act V, Scene I
214.
A man may well bring a horse to the water,
But he cannot make him drinke without he will.
Proverbs, Bk I Chap. XI
215. Let’s fear no storm before we feel a show’r.
The Baron’s Wars, Bk III, LV
216. God’s mills grind slow, but sure.
Jacula Prudentum