Quote #9

Neither go to a wedding nor a christening unbid.

More from James Howell

  1. God consents but not always.
  2. Affection is blind reason.
  3. Happy is he that grows wise by other men's harms.
  4. To whom thy secret thou dost tell, to him thy freedom thou dost sell.
  5. The Devil turns his back to a door that is shut.
  6. There's fence against all things except death.
  7. Words and works eat not at one table.
  8. He falls in the pit he digs for others.

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