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.
511. The best elixir is a friend.
The Hip
512. Repentance is a pitiful scoundrel, that never brought back a single yesterday.
The Road to Ruin (Harry Dornton), Act II,
Scene II
513.
A glorious charter, deny it who can,
Is breathed in the words, I’m an Englishman.
The Englishman
514.
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
515. It’s a melancholy consideration indeed, that our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and that an increase of our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.
The Good-Natured Man (Honey wood), Act I
516. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Proverbs 15:17