The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

- Francis Quarles

Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

- Francis Quarles

Scandal breeds hatred; hatred begets division; division makes faction, and faction brings ruin.

- Francis Quarles

I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.

- Francis Quarles

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

- Francis Quarles

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

- Francis Quarles

If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercis…

- Francis Quarles

It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.

- Francis Quarles

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.

- Francis Quarles