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.
On this page you will a find a selection of brief sayings, including short quotations from English literature as well as traditional proverbs. Choose a saying, and try to express the idea in different words as much as you can. In what circumstances might you use this quotation?
Note: Many of these proverbs and quotations are in archaic English, and neither grammar nor spelling has been modernised.
1. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Odes to Rosa
2. Some bookes are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Essay L, Of Studies
3.
A man must serve his time to ev’ry trade
Save censure — critics all are ready made.
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
4. A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Rip Van Winkle
5.
Hypocrisy the only evil that walks
Invisible, except to God alone.
Paradise Lost, Bk III, line 683
6. He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.
The Comedy of Errors (Dromio), Act IV, Scene III