Quote #16

Appetite is better than surfeit.

More from James Howell

  1. The wealth of a churchman God gives it, and the Devil takes it away.
  2. Sometimes an ill favored bitch gnaws a good chord.
  3. He falls in the pit he digs for others.
  4. There's fence against all things except death.
  5. To whom thy secret thou dost tell, to him thy freedom thou dost sell.
  6. Affection is blind reason.
  7. Neither go to a wedding nor a christening unbid.
  8. God consents but not always.

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