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.
A burthen’d conscience
Will never need a hangman.
Laws of Candy (Cassilane), Act V, Scene I
2. A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.
The Professor at the Breakfast Table, Ch. X
3.
Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old;
It is the rust we value, not the gold.
Imitations of Horace, Bk II, Ep. I
4.
The brave
Die never. Being deathless, they but change
Their country’s arms, for more, their country’s heart.
Festus (Festus), V
5. The cottage is sure to suffer for every error of the court, the cabinet, or the camp.
Lacon, V
6.
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to scourge us.
King Lear (Edgar), Act V, Scene III