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. One ear it heard, at the other out it went.
Troilus and Cresscide, Bk IV, line 435
368.
Poets lose half the praise they should have got,
Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
On Roscommon’s Translation of De Arte Poetica
369. It will never out of the flesh that’s bred in the bone.
Every Man in his Humour (Downright), Act II,
Scene I
370. The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
The Mill on the Floss, Bk VI, Ch. III
371. It was alway yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.
Henry IV, Pt II (Falstaff), Act I, Scene II
372. Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
The Mill on the Floss, Bk II, Ch. II