John Lyly Quotes

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.

Cupid and my Campaspe play'd At cards for kisses - Cupid paid: He stakes his quiver, bow, and arrows, His mother's doves, and team of sparrows; Loses them too; then down he throws The coral of his lips, the rose Growing one's cheek (but none knows how); With these, the crystal of his brow, And then the dimple of his chin: All these did my Campaspe win. At last he set her both his eyes - She won, and Cupid blind did rise. O Love! has she done this for thee? What shall, alas! become of me?

The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever.

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

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

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

When adversities flow, then love ebbs; but friendship standeth stiffly in storms.

Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.

The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.

He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.

The night has a thousand eyes.

Lips are no part of the head, only made for a double-leaf door for the mouth.

None but the lark so shrill and clear; Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings, The morn not waking till she sings.

The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.

It is the eye of the master that fatteth the horse, and the love of the woman that maketh the man.

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot.

The wound that bleedeth inward is most dangerous.

Nothing so perilous as procrastination

To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it.

As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hate.

Love knoweth no laws.

Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.

Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.

There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.

Where the countenance is fair, there need no colors.

A merry companion is as good as a wagon.

Children and fools speak true.

To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.

Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.

When parents put gold into the hands of youth, when they should put a rod under their girdle--when instead of awe they make them past grace, and leave them rich executors of goods, and poor executors of godliness, then it is no marvel that the son being left rich by his father's will, becomes reckless by his own will.

The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.

A comely olde man as busie as a bee.

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.

Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.

I thank you for nothing, because I understand nothing.

Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.

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.

I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love; which is lawless.

I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.

Children and fooles speake true.

Instruments sound sweetest when they are touched softest.

It is a world to see.

All fish are not caught with flies

It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing.

The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble.

Fish and guests in three days are stale.

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

The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.