Top 91 Quotes & Sayings by John Lyly
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.
We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth.
Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.
A clear conscience is a sure card.
As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate.
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
Night hath a thousand eyes.
The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.
A merry companion is as good as a wagon.
A new broome sweepeth cleane.
Love knoweth no laws.
The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever.
A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts ears, bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, kill'd by dissembling, buried by ingratitude, and this is love.
It is the eye of the master that fatteth the horse, and the love of the woman that maketh the man.
When adversities flow, then love ebbs; but friendship standeth stiffly in storms.
If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous?
The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.
If thy wealth waste, they wit will give but small warmth.
Thou art an heyre to fayre lying, that is nothing, if thou be disinherited of learning, for better were it to thee to inherite righteousnesse then riches, and far more seemly were if for thee to haue thy Studie full of bookes, then thy pursse full of mony.
Lips are no part of the head, only made for a double-leaf door for the mouth.
It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.
Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it?
For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.
The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.
It is a world to see.
A comely olde man as busie as a bee.
To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.
The wound that bleedeth inward is most dangerous.
If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young.
The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble.
The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.
It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing.
When parents put gold into the hands of youth, when they should put a rod under their girdle--when instead of awe they make them past grace, and leave them rich executors of goods, and poor executors of godliness, then it is no marvel that the son being left rich by his father's will, becomes reckless by his own will.
As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hate.
To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it.
I thank you for nothing, because I understand nothing.
The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
Lette me stande to the maine chance.
Children and fooles speake true.
Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.
As love knoweth no lawes, so it regardeth no conditions
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.
Where the countenance is fair, there need no colors.
All men [are] of one metal, but not in one mold.
Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish
Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.
Fish and guests in three days are stale.
It is good walking when one hath his horse in hand.
All fish are not caught with flies
As lyke as one pease is to another.
Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.
The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.
Instruments sound sweetest when they are touched softest.
[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot.
The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.
Nothing so perilous as procrastination
Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.
Maydens, be they never so foolyshe, yet beeing fayre they are commonly fortunate.
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