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.
325. It’s ill livin’ in a hen-roost for them as doesn’t like fleas.
Adam Bede (Mrs Poyser)
326.
The drying up a single tear has more
Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
Don Juan, Can. VIII, St. 3
327. They who possess the prince possess the laws.
Absalom and Achitophel, Pt I, line 476
328.
Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing;
’Twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.
Othello (Iago), Act III, Scene III
329.
Our discontent is from comparison,
Were better states unseen, each man would like his own.
The Consolation, St. 2
330. Virtue’s its own reward.
The Provoked Wife (Lady Brute), Act I, Scene I