Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day

- Thomas Overbury

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.

- Thomas Overbury

A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.

- Thomas Overbury

Beauty is only skin deep.

- Thomas Overbury

Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.

- Thomas Overbury

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground.

- Thomas Overbury

Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.

- Thomas Overbury

Things were first made, then words.

- Thomas Overbury

An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous

- Thomas Overbury