John Florio Quotes

17 quotes in 149 categories

• Praise the sea; on shore remain.
• Who hath not served can not command.
• Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.
• Night is the mother of thoughts.
• Patience is the best medicine.
• Wisdom sails with wind and time.
• Poverty is no vice, but an inconvenience.
• From the physician and lawyer keep not the truth hidden.
• To long for that which comes not. To lie a-bed and sleep not. To serve well and please not. To have a horse that goes…
• For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use…
• England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.
• Be circumspect how you offend schollers, for knowe, a serpent tooth bites not so ill, as dooth a schollers angrie quill.
• Fish marreth the water, and flesh doth dress it
• A good husband makes a good wife.
• Who has not served cannot command.

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