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.
313. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em.
Twelfth Night (Malvolio, Letter), Act II, Scene V
314. Who is worse shod than the shoemaker’s wife?
Proverbs, Bk I, Chap. XI
315.
There’s no wound deeper than a pen can give,
It makes men living dead, and dead men live.
A Kicksey-Winsey, Pt 7
316. He soonest looseth that despairs to win.
The Famous History of the Life and Death of
Captain Thomas Stukeley (Wife), line 711
317. Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper-chamber, if he has common-sense on the ground-floor.
The Poet at the Breakfast Table, V
318. Great men are too often unknown, or, what is worse, misknown.
Sartor Resartus, Bk I, Ch. III