James Howell Quotes
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Neither go to a wedding nor a christening unbid.
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Affection is blind reason.
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He falls in the pit he digs for others.
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All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.
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Who has the fame to be an early riser may sleep till noon.
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Happy is he that grows wise by other men's harms.
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The Devil turns his back to a door that is shut.
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This life at best is but an inn, And we the passengers.
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Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.
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There's fence against all things except death.
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He that hath eaten a bear-pie, will always smell of the garden.
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A hungry man is an angry man.
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To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
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The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.
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Words and works eat not at one table.
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One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.
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The wealth of a churchman God gives it, and the Devil takes it away.
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He will bless God, and love England ever after
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To whom thy secret thou dost tell, to him thy freedom thou dost sell.
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Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.