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.
43.
Either sex alone
Is half itself and in true marriage lies
Nor equal, nor unequal.
The Princess, VII
44.
Be England what she will,
With all her faults, she is my country still.
The Farewell, line 27
45.
It is a custom
More honoured in the breach than the observance.
Hamlet (Hamlet), Act I, Scene IV
46. You may know him by his company.
Love in a Wood (Sir Simon), Act I, Scene I
47. No furniture so charming as books, even if you never open them or read a single word.
Memoirs, Chap IX
48.
I have no spur,
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself,
And falls on the other.
Macbeth (Macbeth), Act I, Scene VII