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.
493. Every difficulty yields to the enterprising.
The Votary of Wealth (Leonard), Act IV., Scene I.
494. You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
495. When Fortune favours, none but fools will dally.
Epilogue VIII, To The Duke of Guise
496.
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises; and oft it hits,
Where hope is coldest, and despair most sits.
All’s Well that Ends Well (Helena), Act II,
Scene I
497. What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
Childe Harold, Can. III, LXXXIV
498.
Youth is subject to sudden fits of despondency.
Its hopes go up and down like a bucket in a draw-well.
Better Dead, Ch. III