James Howell

Words and works eat not at one table.

— James Howell

Fly and you will catch the swallow.

— James Howell

Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day.

— James Howell

Man's best candle is his understanding.

— James Howell

Respect a man, he will do it the more.

— James Howell

Feed sparingly and defy the physician.

— James Howell

We learn by teaching.

— James Howell

Little sins are pioneers of hell.

— James Howell

Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.

— James Howell

God comes at last when we think he is farthest off.

— James Howell

Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice.

— James Howell

Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.

— James Howell

Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.

— James Howell

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

— James Howell

A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three.

— James Howell

Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.

— James Howell

All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.

— James Howell

Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things.

— James Howell

Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world. [Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.]

— James Howell

Distance sometimes endears friendships, and sweetens it - for separation from those we love shows us, by the loss, their real value…

— James Howell

In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.

— James Howell

Saying that most of the computer was filled with personal images is simply not accurate.

— James Howell

Good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good…

— James Howell

The fangs of a bear, and the tusks of a wild boar, do not bite worse and make deeper gashes than a…

— James Howell

Appeles us'd to paint a good housewife upon a snayl; which intimated that she should be as slow from gadding abroad, and…

— James Howell

French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomach, but this is the wine that digests, and doth not…

— James Howell

We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin. Little sins are pioneers of hell. The backslider begins with…

— James Howell

“Could any State on Earth Immortall be, Venice by Her rare Goverment is She; Venice Great Neptunes Minion, still a Mayd, Though…

— James Howell

After rain comes fair weather.

— James Howell

Respect a man, he will do the more.

— James Howell

Love is the life of friendship.

— James Howell

Who has the fame to be an early riser may sleep till noon.

— James Howell

Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.

— James Howell

Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro.

— James Howell

God guard me from my friends, for I shall guard myself from my enemies.

— James Howell

This life at best is but an inn, and we the passengers.

— James Howell

One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.

— James Howell

We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin.

— James Howell

Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.

— James Howell

“It's no use crying over spilt milk What’s done, is done.”

— James Howell