Thomas Overbury Quotes

Thomas Overbury's thoughts are sharp and contemplative, offering insight for those pondering marriage, legacy, and judgment.

14 quotes

  1. In part to blame is she, Which hath without consent bin only tride: He comes to neere that comes to be denide.

  2. An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous

  3. He disdains all things above his reach, and preferreth all countries above his own.

  4. The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors, is like a potato-the only good belonging to him is underground.

  5. All the carnall beauty of my wife, Is but skin deep.

  6. Beauty is only skin deep.

  7. Things were first made, then words.

  8. Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.

  9. The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

  10. Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.

  11. A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.

  12. Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.

  13. Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.

  14. Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day