John Lyly famous quotes

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly

#Wedding #Heaven #Earth

The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.
-- John Lyly

#Ignorance #Sound #Empty

Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish
-- John Lyly

#Destiny #Wrinkles #Color

The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.
-- John Lyly

#Kindness #Bees #Kindred

Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.
-- John Lyly

#Heaven #Made #Matrimony

Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.
-- John Lyly

#Blessing #Sun

Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.
-- John Lyly

#Teaching #Young

Things of greatest profit are set forth with least price. Where the wine is neat there needeth no live blush.
-- John Lyly

#Wine #Profit #Neat

If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my poor heart doth think.
-- John Lyly

#Writing #Heart #Thinking

Lips are no part of the head, only made for a double-leaf door for the mouth.
-- John Lyly

#Doors #Mouths #Lips

For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.
-- John Lyly

#Roots #Tree #Crooked

All fish are not caught with flies
-- John Lyly

#Fishing #Caught #Fishes

A Rose is sweeter in the budde than full blowne.
-- John Lyly

#Rose

Lette me stande to the maine chance.
-- John Lyly

#Maine #Chance

Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.
-- John Lyly

#Water

The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.
-- John Lyly

#Tails #Mouths #Honey

Where the countenance is fair, there need no colors.
-- John Lyly

#Color #Needs #Countenance

If thy wealth waste, they wit will give but small warmth.
-- John Lyly

#Giving #Waste #Poverty

The rattling thunderbolt hath but his clap, the lightning but his flash, and as they both come in a moment, so do they both end in a minute.
-- John Lyly

#Lightning #Moments #Ends

It is good walking when one hath his horse in hand.
-- John Lyly

#Horse #Hands #Walking

If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young.
-- John Lyly

#Young #Courteous

It is the eye of the master that fatteth the horse, and the love of the woman that maketh the man.
-- John Lyly

#Horse #Eye #Men

A bargain is a bargain.
-- John Lyly

A new broome sweepeth cleane.
-- John Lyly

When parents put gold into the hands of youth, when they should put a rod under their girdle--when instead of awe they make them past grace, and leave them rich executors of goods, and poor executors of godliness, then it is no marvel that the son being left rich by his father's will, becomes reckless by his own will.
-- John Lyly

#Father #Son #Past

None but the lark so shrill and clear; Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings, The morn not waking till she sings.
-- John Lyly

#Wings #Heaven #Larks

Thou art an heyre to fayre lying, that is nothing, if thou be disinherited of learning, for better were it to thee to inherite righteousnesse then riches, and far more seemly were if for thee to haue thy Studie full of bookes, then thy pursse full of mony.
-- John Lyly

#Art #Lying #Learning

Gentlemen use books as Gentlewomen handle their flowers, who in the morning stick them in their heads, and at night strawe them at their heeles.
-- John Lyly

#Morning #Flower #Book

Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it?
-- John Lyly

#Moving #Heart #Thinking

Cupid and my Campaspe play'd At cards for kisses; Cupid paid; He stakes his quiver, bow and arrows, His mother's doves, and team of sparrows; Loses them too; then down he throws The coral of his lip,--the rose Growing on 's cheek (but none knows how) With these, the crystal on his brow, And then the dimple of his chin; All these did my campaspe win. At last he set her both his eyes, She won, and Cupid blind did rise. O Love! hath she done this to thee? What shall, alas! become of me?
-- John Lyly

#Love #Mother #Team

The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.
-- John Lyly

#Heart #Ambassadors #Tongue

The fallyng out of faithfull frends is the renuyng of loue.
-- John Lyly

An Englishman hath three qualities, he can suffer no partner in his love, no stranger to be his friend, nor to be dared by any.
-- John Lyly

#Suffering #Quality #Three

Children and fooles speake true.
-- John Lyly

#Children #Truth

The measure of love is to have no mean, the end to be everlasting.
-- John Lyly

#Mean #Love Is #Ends

To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.
-- John Lyly

#Incidents #Live Well #Wells

[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot.
-- John Lyly

#Sweet #Bait #Poison

Water runneth smoothest where it is deepest.
-- John Lyly

#Water

A merry companion is as good as a wagon, For you shall be sure to ride though ye go a foot.
-- John Lyly

#Feet #Wagons #Companion

The wound that bleedeth inward is most dangerous.
-- John Lyly

#Inward #Dangerous #Wounds

Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.
-- John Lyly

#Friendship #Friends #Fall

If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous?
-- John Lyly

#Love Is #Lovers #Should

Fish and guests in three days are stale.
-- John Lyly

#Three #Modern Life #Guests

In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.
-- John Lyly

#Anger #Shadow #Substance

Children and fools speak true.
-- John Lyly

#Children #Honesty #Fool

A merry companion is as good as a wagon.
-- John Lyly

#Wagons #Companion

The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.
-- John Lyly

#Sloth #Done #Laziness

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.
-- John Lyly

#Ignorance #Foxes #Blind

Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.
-- John Lyly

#Heart #Wine #Men

The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.
-- John Lyly

#Envy #Envious #Harm

The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.
-- John Lyly

#Sun #Corruption

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
-- John Lyly

#Heart #Past #Mind

He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.
-- John Lyly

#Honesty

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
-- John Lyly

#Honesty #Life Is #Length

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.
-- John Lyly

#Time #Strokes

Nothing so perilous as procrastination
-- John Lyly

#Procrastination

The night has a thousand eyes.
-- John Lyly

#Eye #Night #Thousand

As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hate.
-- John Lyly

#Hate #Wine #Vinegar

I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love; which is lawless.
-- John Lyly

#Law #Mind #Might

I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.
-- John Lyly

#Wit #Committed #Idolatry

Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.
-- John Lyly

#Women #Overcoming #Reason

It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing.
-- John Lyly

#Ideas #Disposition

In misery it is great comfort to have a companion.
-- John Lyly

#Comfort #Misery #Companion

To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.
-- John Lyly

#Fire #Wind #Giving

He that comes in print because he would be known, is like the fool that comes into the market because he would be seen.
-- John Lyly

#Would Be #Fool #Print

I thank you for nothing, because I understand nothing.
-- John Lyly

#Understanding

It is a world to see.
-- John Lyly

#World

There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.
-- John Lyly

#Fire #Arise

Be valyaunt, but not too venturous. Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.
-- John Lyly

#Bees

Rather fast then surfette, rather starue then striue to exceede.
-- John Lyly

The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
-- John Lyly

#Blunt #Finest #Made

A comely olde man as busie as a bee.
-- John Lyly

#Men #Bees

Maydens, be they never so foolyshe, yet beeing fayre they are commonly fortunate.
-- John Lyly

Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.
-- John Lyly

#Book #Purses #Study

As love knoweth no lawes, so it regardeth no conditions
-- John Lyly

#Law

The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever.
-- John Lyly

#Broken #Together #Stronger

A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts ears, bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, kill'd by dissembling, buried by ingratitude, and this is love.
-- John Lyly

#Sweet #Pain #Heart

When adversities flow, then love ebbs; but friendship standeth stiffly in storms.
-- John Lyly

#Loyalty #Adversity #Storm

Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook.
-- John Lyly

#Beauty #Bait #Hook

Love knoweth no laws.
-- John Lyly

#Love #Law

Long quaffing maketh a short lyfe.
-- John Lyly

#Long #Alcohol

A clere conscience is a sure carde.
-- John Lyly

#Conscience

All men [are] of one metal, but not in one mold.
-- John Lyly

#Men #Mold #Old Man

As lyke as one pease is to another.
-- John Lyly