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By AnonymJames Howell
After rain comes fair weather.
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By AnonymJames Howell
All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.
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By AnonymJames Howell
Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.
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By AnonymJames Howell
Appeles us'd to paint a good housewife upon a snayl; which intimated that she should be as slow from gadding abroad, and when she went she should carry her house upon her back; that is, she should make all sure at home.
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By AnonymJames Howell
A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three.
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By AnonymJames Howell
Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.
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By AnonymJames Howell
Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice.
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By AnonymJames Howell
Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.
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By AnonymJames Howell
Distance sometimes endears friendships, and sweetens it - for separation from those we love shows us, by the loss, their real value and dearness to us.
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By AnonymJames Howell
Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day.
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By AnonymJames Howell
Feed sparingly and defy the physician.
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By AnonymJames Howell
Fly and you will catch the swallow.
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By AnonymJames Howell
French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomach, but this is the wine that digests, and doth not only breed good blood, but it nutrifieth also, being a glutinous substantial liquor; of this wine, if of any other, may be verified that merry induction: That good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.
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By AnonymJames Howell
God guard me from my friends, for I shall guard myself from my enemies.
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By AnonymJames Howell
Good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.
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By AnonymJames Howell
Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world. [Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.]
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By AnonymJames Howell
He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.
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By AnonymJames Howell
He that hath money in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders.
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By AnonymJames Howell
He that hath the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.
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By AnonymJames Howell
In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.
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By AnonymJames Howell
Little sins are pioneers of hell.
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By AnonymJames Howell
Love is the life of friendship.
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By AnonymJames Howell
Man's best candle is his understanding.
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By AnonymJames Howell
Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things.
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By AnonymJames Howell
One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.
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By AnonymJames Howell
Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.
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By AnonymJames Howell
Respect a man, he will do the more.
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By AnonymJames Howell
Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.
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By AnonymJames Howell
The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.
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By AnonymJames Howell
This life at best is but an inn, and we the passengers.
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By AnonymJames Howell
We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin.
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By AnonymJames Howell
We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin. Little sins are pioneers of hell. The backslider begins with what he foolishly considers trifling with little sins. There are no little sins. There was a time when all the evil that has existed in the world was comprehended in one sinful thought of our first parent; and all the now evil is the numerous and horrid progeny of one little sin.
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By AnonymJames Howell
Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro.
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By AnonymJames Howell
Could any State on Earth Immortall be, Venice by Her rare Goverment is She; Venice Great Neptunes Minion, still a Mayd, Though by the warrlikst Potentats assayed; Yet She retaines Her Virgin-waters pure, Nor any Forren mixtures can endure; Though, Syren-like on Shore and Sea, Her Face Enchants all those whom once She doth embrace, Nor is ther any can Her bewty prize But he who hath beheld her with his Eyes: Those following Leaves display, if well observed, How she long Her Maydenhead preserved, How for sound prudence She still bore the Bell; Whence may be drawn this high-fetchd parallel, Venus and Venice are Great Queens in their degree, Venus is Queen of Love, Venice of Policie.
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