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.
583.
A man must serve his time to ev’ry trade
Save censure — critics all are ready made.
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
584.
Pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed.
Tam o’ Shanter
585. If the Poet be born, not made, is it not because he is born to sympathise with what he has never experienced?
What will he Do with It? (George Morley), Bk XII,
Ch. II
586. If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Matthew 15:14
587.
On adamant our wrongs we all engrave,
But write our benefits upon the wave.
The Art of Love, line 971
588.
It follows not, because
The hair is rough, the dog’s a savage one.
The Daughter (Norris), Act I, Scene I