Occupation: Writer Birth: 1594 Death: 1666
Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day..
Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape..
Love is the life of friendship..
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 car….
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 trif….
We learn by teaching..
Man's best candle is his understanding..
The fangs of a bear, and the tusks of a wild boar, do not bite worse and make deeper gashes than a goose-quill sometimes; no, not even the badger him….
In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty..
We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin..
He that hath the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon..
Fly and you will catch the swallow..
He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself..
Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle..
The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor..
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….
One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen..
He that hath money in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders..
Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice..
Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world. [Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.].
Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping..