Occupation: Writer Birth: 1594 Death: 1666
Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it..
A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three..
Feed sparingly and defy the physician..
All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today..
After rain comes fair weather..
Respect a man, he will do the more..
Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee..
Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro..
Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people..
Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things..
Words and works eat not at one table..
Distance sometimes endears friendships, and sweetens it - for separation from those we love shows us, by the loss, their real value and dearness to u….
God comes at last when we think he is farthest off..
Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice..
Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle..
The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor..
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.].
He that hath money in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders..
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..