Proverbial Wisdom

Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.

301. Plenty and peace breeds cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Cymbeline (Imogen), Act III, Scene VI

302. He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

The Idler, No. 70

303. The pen is mightier than the sword.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

Richelieu (Richelieu), Act II, Scene II

304. Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.

Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)

Lacon, CCXLV

305. My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

David Copperfield (Mr Micawber), Ch. XII

306. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Othello (Iago), Act II, Scene III