Occupation: Writer Birth: 1553
If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young..
The true measure of life is not length, but honesty..
The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel..
The wound that bleedeth inward is most dangerous..
[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot..
All men [are] of one metal, but not in one mold..
To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few..
The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever..
The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble..
Fish and guests in three days are stale..
It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon..
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth..
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….
Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection..
The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail..
Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard..
As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hate..
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….
It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing..
Nothing so perilous as procrastination.
When adversities flow, then love ebbs; but friendship standeth stiffly in storms..