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.
451. No quality will get a man more friends than a disposition to admire the qualities of others.
Life of Johnson
452. For thre may kepe a counsel — if twain be awaie.
The Ten Commandments of Love, 49
453. There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
Essay XXXI, of Suspicion
454.
Be Britain still to Britain true,
Amang oursel’s united;
For never but by British hands
Maun British wrangs be righted.
‘Does Haughty Gaul Invasion Threat?’
455.
What is a law, if those who make it
Become the forwardest to break it?
The Wolf and the Shepherds
456.
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
Julius Caesar (Brutus), Act IV, Scene III