George Wither famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Little said is soonest mended.
-- George Wither

#Gossip #Littles #Said
Christmas Pie Lo! now is come our joyfull'st feast! Let every man be jolly; Each room with ivy leaves is dressed, And every post with holly. Now all our neighbours' chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks are burning; Their ovens they with bakemeats choke, And all their spits are turning. Without the door let sorrow lie, And if for cold it hap to die, We'll bury it in a Christmas pie, And ever more be merry.
-- George Wither

#Block #Lying #Men
Lustful Desire (although 'twere rather fit To some brute creature to attribute it) Shall be presented in the second place, Because it shrouds a vile deformed face Beneath love's vizard, and assumes that name, Hiding its own fault with the other's blame.
-- George Wither

#Names #Lust #Desire
Shall I, wasting in despair,Die because a woman's fair?Or make pale my cheeks with care,'Cause another's rosy are?Be she fairer than the day,Or the flowery meads in May,If she be not so to me,What care I how fair she be?
-- George Wither

#Despair #Care #May
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,And therefore let 's be merry.
-- George Wither

#Cat #Sorrow #Care
I loved a lass, a fair one,As fair as e'er was seen;She was indeed a rare one,Another Sheba queen:But, fool as then I was,I thought she loved me too:But now, alas! she's left me,Falero, lero, loo!
-- George Wither

#Queens #Fool #Inconstancy
Night begins to muffle up the day.
-- George Wither

#Night
Lastly, the ashes left behind, May daily show to move the mind, That to ashes and dust return we must: Then think, and drink tobacco.
-- George Wither

#Moving #Thinking #Dust

Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:
Journalism is often simply the industrialisation of gossip.
All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.
You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. 'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.
Don't. Please, just let me hold you a little bit longer," he mumbled into my hair
I had a nice read on the putt and I said to myself, 'This is for you, Jesus, ' and knocked it in.
The problem with a politicianâ€™s quote on Facebook is you donâ€™t know whether or not they really said it.
She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
I immediately said yes for one reason and one reason onlyâ€¦.Netflix rhymes with Wet Chicks,

George Wither famous quotes

You may also like: