John Lyly Quotes

Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook.

A merry companion is as good as a wagon, For you shall be sure to ride though ye go a foot.

Water runneth smoothest where it is deepest.

A Rose is sweeter in the budde than full blowne.

The rattling thunderbolt hath but his clap, the lightning but his flash, and as they both come in a moment, so do they both end in a minute.

Rather fast then surfette, rather starue then striue to exceede.

Be valyaunt, but not too venturous. Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.

A bargain is a bargain.

Long quaffing maketh a short lyfe.

An Englishman hath three qualities, he can suffer no partner in his love, no stranger to be his friend, nor to be dared by any.

For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.

The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble.

Fish and guests in three days are stale.

If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young.

The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.

To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.

The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.

The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.

It is good walking when one hath his horse in hand.

If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous?

As love knoweth no lawes, so it regardeth no conditions

A new broome sweepeth cleane.

If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my poor heart doth think.

All men [are] of one metal, but not in one mold.

The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.

Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it?

Lette me stande to the maine chance.

If thy wealth waste, they wit will give but small warmth.

The measure of love is to have no mean, the end to be everlasting.

Maydens, be they never so foolyshe, yet beeing fayre they are commonly fortunate.

As lyke as one pease is to another.

Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.

In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.

A penny for your thought.

You are in some brown study.

Where the mind is past hope the heart is past shame.

There can no great smoke arise but there must be some fire.