James Howell Quotes

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

“A hungry man is an angry man.”

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

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

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

“He falls in the pit he digs for others.”

“He will bless God, and love England ever after”

“Words and works eat not at one table.”

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

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

“There's fence against all things except death.”

“Appetite is better than surfeit.”

“Affection is blind reason.”

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

“God consents but not always.”

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

“Sometimes an ill favored bitch gnaws a good chord.”