1.
Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day
Thomas Overbury
2.
Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.
Thomas Overbury
3.
Beauty is only skin deep.
Thomas Overbury
4.
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.
Thomas Overbury
5.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry
is like the potato. The best part is underground.
Thomas Overbury
6.
A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.
Thomas Overbury
7.
An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous
Thomas Overbury
8.
Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.
Thomas Overbury
9.
Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.
Thomas Overbury
10.
Things were first made, then words.
Thomas Overbury
