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.
373. When the cat’s away, the mice will play.
374. What should they know of England who only England know?
The English Flag
375. We look before and after, and pine for what is not.
Ode to a Skylark
376. Grief best is pleas’d with grief’s society.
Rape of Lucrece, St. 159
377.
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
378.
An idler is a watch that wants both hands;
As useless when it goes as when it stands.
Retirement, line 681