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.
229. Time and tide stay no man’s pleasure.
Loss in Delay
230. The cord breaketh at the last by the weakest pull.
Quoted by Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626).
Essay XV, Of Seditions and Troubles
231. Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most, always like it the least.
Letter to his Son, 29th January, 1748
232. In Folly’s cup still laughs the bubble, Joy.
Essay on Man, Ep. II, line 288
233. There is no error to be named, which has not had its professors; and a man shall never want crooked paths to walk in, if he thinks that he is in the right way, wherever he has the footsteps of others to follow.
Essay on the Hitman Understanding, Bk IV, Chap. XX,
Sec. 17
234. A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone.
Essay on the Faculties of the Mind