Top 19 Quotes & Sayings by John Florio

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Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Giovanni Florio (1552–1625), known as John Florio, was an English linguist, poet, writer, translator, lexicographer, and royal language tutor at the Court of James I. He is recognised as the most important Renaissance humanist in England. Florio contributed 1,149 words to the English language, placing third after Chaucer and Shakespeare, in the linguistic analysis conducted by Stanford professor John Willinsky.

English - Writer | 1553 - 1625

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England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.

John Florio

Praise the sea, on shore remain.

John Florio

Who has not served cannot command.

John Florio

A good husband makes a good wife.

John Florio

Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.

John Florio

Night is the mother of thoughts.

John Florio

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

John Florio

Patience is the best medicine.

John Florio

Praise the sea; on shore remain.

John Florio

Who hath not served can not command.

John Florio

One hand washeth another, both the face. [Lat., Una mano lava l'altra, ed ambedue lavano il volto.]

John Florio

Fish marreth the water, and flesh doth dress it

John Florio

Be circumspect how you offend schollers, for knowe, a serpent tooth bites not so ill, as dooth a schollers angrie quill.

John Florio

From the physician and lawyer keep not the truth hidden.

John Florio

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 not. To have a man obeys not. To lie in jail and hope not. To be sick and recover not. To lose one's way and know not. To wait at door and enter not, and to have a friend we trust not: are ten such spites as hell hath not.

John Florio

If you will be a traveler, have always two bags very full. That is one of patience and another of money.

John Florio

A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.

John Florio

Poverty is no vice, but an inconvenience.

John Florio

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 them is a grace, to understand them a good.

John Florio

Top 19 Quotes & Sayings by John Florio

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