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.
487. Men are valued not for what they are, but what they seem to be.
Money (Sir John Vesey), Act I, Scene I
488.
That which we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it ; but being lack’d and lost,
Why, then we rack the value, then we find
The virtue that possession would not show us.
Much Ado about Nothing (Friar), Act IV, Scene I
489.
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British
Public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
Essay on Morres’ Life of Lord Byron
490. Can man be free if woman be a slave?
The Revolt of Islam, II, XLIII
491. Who reproves the lame, must go upright.
Civil War, Bk III, X
492. Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
Essay on Criticism, Pt III, line 574