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16 James Howell Quotes

James Howell offers witty, old-fashioned proverbs about fate, secrecy and wealth.

James Howell quotes

  1. Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.

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  2. He that hath eaten a bear-pie, will always smell of the garden.

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  3. A hungry man is an angry man.

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  4. Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.

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  5. Words and works eat not at one table.

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  6. The Devil turns his back to a door that is shut.

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  7. Happy is he that grows wise by other men's harms.

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  8. God consents but not always.

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  9. Neither go to a wedding nor a christening unbid.

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  10. Affection is blind reason.

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  11. To whom thy secret thou dost tell, to him thy freedom thou dost sell.

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  12. There's fence against all things except death.

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  13. He falls in the pit he digs for others.

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  14. Sometimes an ill favored bitch gnaws a good chord.

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  15. The wealth of a churchman God gives it, and the Devil takes it away.

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  16. Appetite is better than surfeit.

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