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.
235. Men’s behaviour should be like their apparell, not too strait, or point device, but free for exercise or motion.
Essay LII, Of Ceremonies and Respects
236. Men’s words are ever bolder than their deeds.
Piccolomini, Act I, Scene IV
237. If fields are prisons, where is Liberty?
The Farmer’s Boy, Autumn, line 226
238. Them as ha’ never had a cushion don’t miss it.
Adam Bede (Mrs Poyser), Bk VI Chap. XLIX
239. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
Hamlet (Hamlet), Act III, Scene I
240.
Repentance for past crimes is just and easy;
But sin no more’s a task too hard for mortals.
The Relapse (Worthy), Act V, Scene IV