James Howell Quotes

• Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.
• He that hath eaten a bear-pie, will always smell of the garden.
• A hungry man is an angry man.
• Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.
• Words and works eat not at one table.
• The Devil turns his back to a door that is shut.
• Happy is he that grows wise by other men's harms.
• God consents but not always.
• Neither go to a wedding nor a christening unbid.
• Affection is blind reason.
• To whom thy secret thou dost tell, to him thy freedom thou dost sell.
• There's fence against all things except death.
• He falls in the pit he digs for others.
• Sometimes an ill favored bitch gnaws a good chord.
• The wealth of a churchman God gives it, and the Devil takes it away.
• Appetite is better than surfeit.

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