James Howell famous quotes

We learn by teaching.
-- James Howell

#Teacher #Teaching

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.
-- James Howell

#Memories #Business #Debtors

Respect a man, he will do the more.
-- James Howell

#Respect #Men

Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day.
-- James Howell

#Easter #Gone

In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.
-- James Howell

#Adversity #Twenties #Prosperity

He that hath money in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders.
-- James Howell

#Money #Want #Purses

Words and works eat not at one table.
-- James Howell

#Tables

Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.
-- James Howell

#Easter #Thee

We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin. Little sins are pioneers of hell. The backslider begins with what he foolishly considers trifling with little sins. There are no little sins. There was a time when all the evil that has existed in the world was comprehended in one sinful thought of our first parent; and all the now evil is the numerous and horrid progeny of one little sin.
-- James Howell

#Evil #Parent #Pioneers

Good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.
-- James Howell

#Wine #Men #Blood

Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.
-- James Howell

#Art #Sculpture #Shapes

A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three.
-- James Howell

#Two #Secret #Three

He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.
-- James Howell

#Friendship #True Friend #Enemy

Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.
-- James Howell

#Distance #Sometimes #Absence

Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.
-- James Howell

#Home #Paint #Used

Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world. [Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.]
-- James Howell

#World #Bees #Calves

The fangs of a bear, and the tusks of a wild boar, do not bite worse and make deeper gashes than a goose-quill sometimes; no, not even the badger himself, who is said to be so tenacious of his bite that he will not give over his hold till he feels his teeth meet and the bones crack.
-- James Howell

#Giving #Teeth #Cracks

Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things.
-- James Howell

#Nature #Advice #Doe

Feed sparingly and defy the physician.
-- James Howell

#Loss #Weight Loss #Physicians

Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro.
-- James Howell

#Political #Soul #Errands

Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.
-- James Howell

#Philosophy #People #May

All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.
-- James Howell

#Yesterday #Today #Tomorrow

This life at best is but an inn, and we the passengers.
-- James Howell

#Inns #This Life #Hotel

Saying that most of the computer was filled with personal images is simply not accurate.
-- James Howell

#Technology #Computer #Accurate

French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomach, but this is the wine that digests, and doth not only breed good blood, but it nutrifieth also, being a glutinous substantial liquor; of this wine, if of any other, may be verified that merry induction: That good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.
-- James Howell

#Wine #Men #Blood

Fly and you will catch the swallow.
-- James Howell

#Aviation

God comes at last when we think he is farthest off.
-- James Howell

#Religious #Thinking #Lasts

God guard me from my friends, for I shall guard myself from my enemies.
-- James Howell

#Real #Real Friends #Enemy

Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.
-- James Howell

#Men #Snuff #Fingers

Man's best candle is his understanding.
-- James Howell

#Men #Understanding #Candle

After rain comes fair weather.
-- James Howell

#Rain #Weather

One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.
-- James Howell

#Hair #Oxen #Pairs

Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice.
-- James Howell

#Friends #Book #Choices

Love is the life of friendship.
-- James Howell

#Real #Real Friends #Love Is

He that hath the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.
-- James Howell

#Sleep #Names #Hypocrisy

Appeles us'd to paint a good housewife upon a snayl; which intimated that she should be as slow from gadding abroad, and when she went she should carry her house upon her back; that is, she should make all sure at home.
-- James Howell

#Home #House #Paint