Occupation: Writer Birth: 1553
The wound that bleedeth inward is most dangerous..
The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever..
As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hate..
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth..
The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble..
To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few..
When adversities flow, then love ebbs; but friendship standeth stiffly in storms..
Fish and guests in three days are stale..
[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot..
A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts ears, bred by desire, nu….
To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it..
Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can….
The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail..
The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel..
The true measure of life is not length, but honesty..
All men [are] of one metal, but not in one mold..
Nothing so perilous as procrastination.
It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing..
Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard..
Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection..
It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon..