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.
283.
What female heart can gold despise?
What cat’s averse to fish?
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat
284.
At lover’s perjuries,
They say, Jove laughs.
Romeo and Juliet (Juliet), Act II, Scene II
285.
Grief should be the instructor of the wise ;
Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth,
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of life.
Manfred, Act I, Scene I
286. I beseech you, let his lack of years be no impediment to let him lack a reverend estimation; for I never knew so young a body with so old a head.
Merchant of Venice (the Clerk reads), Act IV, Scene I
287. If money go before, all ways do lie open.
The Merry Wives of Windsor (Ford), Act II,
Scene II
288. A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.
Endymion, line 1