“248. Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
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Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest 1593–1633Related quotes

“The leaves of memory seemed to make
A mournful rustling in the dark.”
The Fire of Drift-wood, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Don't leave me."
"Leave you? I'm going to marry you.”
Source: Reflected in You

“A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.”
Variant: A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, listens but doesn’t believe, and leaves before she is left.

“We love a genius for what he leaves and mourn him for what he takes away.”
Quote in Gainsborough's Letter to Henry Bate, 20th June 1787
1770 - 1788

“And yet the wiser mind
Mourns less for what age takes away
Than what it leaves behind.”
Source: Selected Poetry
“Leave it to Annie. She knew everything.”
Source: Water Street (2006), Chapters 21-29, p. 162