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.
253. Trust not him that hath once broken faith.
Henry VI, Pt III (Queen Elizabeth),
Act IV, Scene IV
254. Count not your chickens before they be hatch’d.
255. Men take more pains to lose themselves than would be requisite to keep them in the right road.
The Broad Stone of Honour, Godefridus, X
256.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes ill deeds done.
King John (King), Act IV, Scene II
257. Faint heart faire lady ne’er could win.
Brittain’s Ida, Can. V, St. I
258.
Be not too rigidly censorious,
A string may jar in the best master’s hand,
And the most skilful archer miss his aim; —
I would not quarrel with a slight mistake.
Art of Poetry (translated from Horace), line 388