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.
241. He jests at scars, that never felt a wound.
Romeo and Juliet (Romeo), Act II, Scene II
242. One foul wind no more makes a winter, than one swallow makes a summer.
Martin Chuzzlewit, Ch. XLIII
243.
Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.
He acts the third crime that defends the first.
Catiline (Cicero), Act III, Scene II
244.
If reasons were as plenty as blackberries,
I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.
Henry IV, Pt I (Falstaff), Act II, Scene IV
245. Great talkers are never great doers.
Blurt, Master-Constable (Third Lady), Act Scene I
246.
To observations which ourselves we make,
We grow more partial for the observer’s sake.
Moral Essays, Ep. I, line 11