Best 34 quotes of James Howell on MyQuotes

After rain comes fair weather.

All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.

Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.

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.

A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three.

Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.

Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice.

Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.

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.

Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day.

Feed sparingly and defy the physician.

Fly and you will catch the swallow.

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.

God guard me from my friends, for I shall guard myself from my enemies.

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.

Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world. [Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.]

He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.

He that hath money in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders.

He that hath the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.

In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.

Little sins are pioneers of hell.

Love is the life of friendship.

Man's best candle is his understanding.

Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things.

One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.

Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.

Respect a man, he will do the more.

Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

This life at best is but an inn, and we the passengers.

We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin.

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.

Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro.

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.