Proverbial Wisdom

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.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Twelfth Night (Malvolio, Letter), Act II, Scene V

314. Who is worse shod than the shoemaker’s wife?

John Heywood (?1497-?1580)

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.

John Taylor (1578-1653)

A Kicksey-Winsey, Pt 7

316. He soonest looseth that despairs to win.

Anonymous (1605)

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.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

The Poet at the Breakfast Table, V

318. Great men are too often unknown, or, what is worse, misknown.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

Sartor Resartus, Bk I, Ch. III