John Florio Quotes

A good husband makes a good wife.

Who has not served cannot command.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

Praise the sea; on shore remain.

England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.

Night is the mother of thoughts.

Patience is the best medicine.

Fish marreth the water, and flesh doth dress it

Who hath not served can not command.

Be circumspect how you offend schollers, for knowe, a serpent tooth bites not so ill, as dooth a schollers angrie quill.

One hand washeth another, both the face. [Lat., Una mano lava l'altra, ed ambedue lavano il volto.]

If you will be a traveler, have always two bags very full. That is one of patience and another of money.

From the physician and lawyer keep not the truth hidden.

Poverty is no vice, but an inconvenience.

For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good.

Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.

Praise the sea on shore remain.