James Howell Quotes

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

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

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

We learn by teaching.

Respect a man, he will do the more.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice.

Fly and you will catch the swallow.

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

Feed sparingly and defy the physician.

Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.

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

After rain comes fair weather.

God comes at last when we think he is farthest off.

Words and works eat not at one table.

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

Man's best candle is his understanding.

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

Little sins are pioneers of hell.

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

Love is the life of friendship.

Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.

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

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

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

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

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.

An acre of performance is worth the whole world of promise.

It's no use crying over spilt milkWhat’s done, is done.