Top 15 John Lyly Quotes

A Rose is sweeter in the budde than full blowne.

For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.

I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his head.

Fishe and gesse in three dayes are stale.

Your eyes are so sharpe that you cannot onely looke through a Milstone, but cleane through the minde.

Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.

Maydens, be they never so foolyshe, yet beeing fayre they are commonly fortunate.

A comely olde man as busie as a bee.

Goe to bed with the Lambe, and rise with the Larke.

It is a world to see.

Is it not true which Seneca reporteth, that as too much bending breaketh the bowe, so too much remission spoyleth the minde?

Rather fast then surfette, rather starue then striue to exceede.

I mean not to run with the Hare and holde with the Hounde.

Lette me stande to the maine chance.

Did not Jupiter transforme himselfe into the shape of Amphitrio to embrace Alcmæna; into the form of a swan to enjoy Leda; into a Bull to beguile Io; into a showre of gold to win Danae?