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.
301. A bad excuse is better, they say, than none at all.
The Schoole of Abuse
302. Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.
Proverbs, Bk I, Ch. XI
303.
A man may cry Church! Church! at ev’ry word.
With no more piety than other people —
A daw’s not reckoned a religious bird
Because it keeps a-cawing from a steeple.
Ode to Rae Wilson Esq.
304. Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.
Social Aims
305. A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.
The Water Babies, Ch. III
306.
Let Hercules himself do what he may,
The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.
Hamlet (Hamlet), Act V, Scene I