James Howell Quotes

James Howell was a 17th-century Anglo-Welsh historian and writer who is in many ways a representative figure of his age. The son of a Welsh clergyman, he was for much of his life in the shadow of his elder brother Thomas Howell, who became Lord Bishop of Bristol. Wikipedia  

✵ 1594 – 1666
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James Howell: 19 quotes1 like

Famous James Howell Quotes

“He that hath once got the fame of an early riser, may sleep till noon.”

James Howell

Source: [Howell, James, Epistolae Ho-Elianae, https://books.google.com/books?id=v79CAAAAcAAJ&q=%22till%20noon%22, Google Books, 1655 Edition, 20 September 2016]

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

James Howell

Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660)

“A hungry man is an angry man.”

James Howell

English Proverbs (1659)

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

James Howell

English Proverbs (1659)

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

James Howell

English Proverbs (1659)

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

James Howell

Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660)

James Howell Quotes

“Neither go to a wedding nor a christening unbid.”

James Howell

Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660)

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

James Howell

Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660)

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

James Howell

Instructions for Forraine Travel(1642, 1650)

“Words and works eat not at one table.”

James Howell

Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660)

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

James Howell

English Proverbs (1659)

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

James Howell

Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660)

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

James Howell

Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660)

“Appetite is better than surfeit.”

James Howell

Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660)

“Affection is blind reason.”

James Howell

Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660)

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

James Howell

Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660)

“God consents but not always.”

James Howell

Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660)

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

James Howell

Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660)

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

James Howell

Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660)

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