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.
31. No furniture so charming as books, even if you never open them or read a single word.
Memoirs, Chap IX
32. When th’ iron is hot, strike.
Proverbs, Bk I, Chap. III
33. Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most, always like it the least.
Letter to his Son, 29th January, 1748
34. It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies — seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
Lacon, CCLXXXVI
35. He that will have cake out of the wheat, must tarry the grinding.
Troilus and Cressida (Pandarus), Act I, Scene I
36. What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
Childe Harold, Can. III, LXXXIV