Quote #5
Words and works eat not at one table.
More from James Howell
- Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.
- The Devil turns his back to a door that is shut.
- A hungry man is an angry man.
- Happy is he that grows wise by other men's harms.
- He that hath eaten a bear-pie, will always smell of the garden.
- God consents but not always.
- Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.
- Neither go to a wedding nor a christening unbid.