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.
427.
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.
Hesperides, 208
428.
Truth is always strange, —
Stranger than fiction.
Don Juan, Can. XIV, St. 101
429. Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
Essay on the Faculties of the Mind
430.
Peace hath her victories
No less renowned than war.
Sonnet XIX
431.
Good, the more
Communicated, more abundant grows.
Paradise Lost, Bk I, line 371
432. Nice customs court’sy to great kings.
Henry V (King Henry), Act V, Scene II