James Howell Quotes

A hungry man is an angry man.

Happy is he that grows wise by other men's harms.

There's fence against all things except death.

Appetite is better than surfeit.

Neither go to a wedding nor a christening unbid.

God consents but not always.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

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

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

He that hath eaten a bear-pie, will always smell of the garden.

The Devil turns his back to a door that is shut.

The wealth of a churchman God gives it, and the Devil takes it away.

To whom thy secret thou dost tell, to him thy freedom thou dost sell.

To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.

He will bless God, and love England ever after