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. They stumble, that run fast.
Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence), Act II,
Scene III
242. The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
The Mill on the Floss, Bk VI, Ch. III
243.
To observations which ourselves we make,
We grow more partial for the observer’s sake.
Moral Essays, Ep. I, line 11
244.
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new hatched, unfledged comrade.
Hamlet (Polonius), Act I, Scene III
245. Never gallop Pegasus to death.
To Bolingbroke, Bk I, Ep. I, 14
246.
Speak not in the hearing of a fool;
For he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
Proverbs 23:9