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.
457. We have scotch’d the snake, not kill’d it.
Macbeth (Macbeth), Act III, Scene II
458.
Pride goeth before destruction,
And an haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 16:18
459. No love so true as love that dies untold.
The Mysterious Illness
460.
So many are
The sufferings which no human aid can reach,
It needs must be a duty doubly sweet
To heal the few we can.
Zapolya, Pt II
461.
What female heart can gold despise?
What cat’s averse to fish?
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat
462. There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
As recorded by James Boswell in his ‘Life of Johnson’