James Howell Quotations

Respect a man, he will do it the more.

Some hold translations not unlike to be / The wrong side of a Turkish tapestry.

Who has the fame to be an early riser may sleep till noon

We're definitely seeing a rapid increase in West Nile activity, which means a greater risk for human infection.

Ticks become active as soon as the weather begins to warm up.

Saying that most of the computer was filled with personal images is simply not accurate,

Distance sometimes endears friendships, and sweetens it - for separation from those we love shows us, by the loss, their real value and dearness to us.

Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.

All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.

He that hath the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.

Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice.

One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.

After rain comes fair weather.

Man's best candle is his understanding.

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

God comes at last when we think he is farthest off.

Fly and you will catch the swallow.

This life at best is but an inn, and we the passengers.

Good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.

God guard me from my friends, for I shall guard myself from my enemies.

Love is the life of friendship.

Feed sparingly and defy the physician.

Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro.

Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.

We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin.

Little sins are pioneers of hell.

He that hath money in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders.

In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.

Words and works eat not at one table.

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

We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin. Little sins are pioneers of hell. The backslider begins with what he foolishly considers trifling with little sins. There are no little sins. There was a time when all the evil that has existed in the world was comprehended in one sinful thought of our first parent; and all the now evil is the numerous and horrid progeny of one little sin.

Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things.

Appeles us'd to paint a good housewife upon a snayl; which intimated that she should be as slow from gadding abroad, and when she went she should carry her house upon her back; that is, she should make all sure at home.

He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.

Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.

Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world. [Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.]

The fangs of a bear, and the tusks of a wild boar, do not bite worse and make deeper gashes than a goose-quill sometimes; no, not even the badger himself, who is said to be so tenacious of his bite that he will not give over his hold till he feels his teeth meet and the bones crack.

A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three.

Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day.

Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.

French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomach, but this is the wine that digests, and doth not only breed good blood, but it nutrifieth also, being a glutinous substantial liquor; of this wine, if of any other, may be verified that merry induction: That good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.

Respect a man, he will do the more.

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

We learn by teaching.