John Lyly Quotes

Thou art an heyre to fayre lying, that is nothing, if thou be disinherited of learning, for better were it to thee to inherite righteousnesse then riches, and far more seemly were if for thee to haue thy Studie full of bookes, then thy pursse full of mony.

Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish

If thy wealth waste, they wit will give but small warmth.

The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.

A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts ears, bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, kill'd by dissembling, buried by ingratitude, and this is love.

Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook.

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

A Rose is sweeter in the budde than full blowne.

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young.

As love knoweth no lawes, so it regardeth no conditions

A merry companion is as good as a wagon.

Gentlemen use books as Gentlewomen handle their flowers, who in the morning stick them in their heads, and at night strawe them at their heeles.

For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.