Frases de James Howell

“Neither go to a wedding nor a christening unbid.”

“He falls in the pit he digs for others.”

“He will bless God, and love England ever after”

“Words and works eat not at one table.”

“He that hath eaten a bear-pie, will always smell of the garden.”

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

“The wealth of a churchman God gives it, and the Devil takes it away.”

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

“There's fence against all things except death.”

“To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.”

“A hungry man is an angry man.”

“The Devil turns his back to a door that is shut.”

“Appetite is better than surfeit.”

“Affection is blind reason.”

“To whom thy secret thou dost tell, to him thy freedom thou dost sell.”

“God consents but not always.”

“Happy is he that grows wise by other men's harms.”

“Sometimes an ill favored bitch gnaws a good chord.”