312 quotes
To a crazy ship all windes are contrary.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
He that once deceives is ever suspected.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords
If when the soul unto the lines accords.
The Temple (1633)
Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart
Could have recovered greenness?
The Temple (1633)
Surely if each saw another's heart,
There would be no commerce,
No sale or bargain pass: all would disperse,
And live apart.
The Temple (1633)
The Friar preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,
The bridal of the earth and sky;
The dew shall weep thy fall tonight,
For thou must die.
The Temple (1633)
The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
The smith and his penny both are black.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
He that is drunken
Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill
Did with his liquor slide into his veins.
The Temple (1633)
By no means run in debt: take thine own measure.
Who cannot live on twenty pound a year,
Cannot on forty.
The Temple (1633)
523. A fool may throw a stone into a well, which a hundred wise men cannot pull out.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
737. The best smell is bread, the best savour salt, the best love that of children.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
901. Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
601. The fatt man knoweth not what the leane thinketh.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
878. It's more paine to doe nothing then something.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
911. Life is halfe spent before we know what it is.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
763. Better speake truth rudely then lye covertly.
Jacula Prudentum (1651)