John Florio famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Who has not served cannot command.
-- John Florio

#Command
A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.
-- John Florio

#Couple #Husband #Humorous
A good husband makes a good wife.
-- John Florio

#Inspirational #Marriage #Husband
Night is the mother of thoughts.
-- John Florio

#Mother #Night
Praise the sea; on shore remain.
-- John Florio

#Rain #Sea #Rivers
Patience is the best medicine.
-- John Florio

#Medicine
One hand washeth another, both the face. [Lat., Una mano lava l'altra, ed ambedue lavano il volto.]
-- John Florio

#Hands #Lava #Faces
Wisdom sails with wind and time.
-- John Florio

#Wind #Sailing #Sail
Who hath not served can not command.
-- John Florio

#Military #Command #Can Not
Fish marreth the water, and flesh doth dress it
-- John Florio

#Water #Dresses #Flesh
Be circumspect how you offend schollers, for knowe, a serpent tooth bites not so ill, as dooth a schollers angrie quill.
-- John Florio

#Power #Teeth #Management
England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.
-- John Florio

#Horse #Men #Paradise
For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good.
-- John Florio

#Grace #Phrases #Use
To long for that which comes not. To lie a-bed and sleep not. To serve well and please not. To have a horse that goes not. To have a man obeys not. To lie in jail and hope not. To be sick and recover not. To lose one's way and know not. To wait at door and enter not, and to have a friend we trust not: are ten such spites as hell hath not.
-- John Florio

#Money #Horse #Lying
From the physician and lawyer keep not the truth hidden.
-- John Florio

#Truth #Physicians #Lawyer
Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.
-- John Florio

#Suffering #World #Born
Poverty is no vice, but an inconvenience.
-- John Florio

#Vices #Poverty #Inconvenience

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