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.
367. Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.
Aesop, Pt I (Aesop), Act IV, Scene II
368.
Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find;
Occasion, once past by, is bald behind.
Pyramus and Thisbe, XV
369. It is too late to shutte the stable door when the steede is stolne.
Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit
370.
Ah! better to love in the lowliest cot
Than pine in a palace, alone.
Chastelar
371. Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
Christian Moderation. Introduction.
372.
I have no spur,
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself,
And falls on the other.
Macbeth (Macbeth), Act I, Scene VII