James Howell Quotes

We learn by teaching.

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

Respect a man, he will do the more.

Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.

French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomach, but this is the wine that digests, and doth not only breed good blood, but it nutrifieth also, being a glutinous substantial liquor; of this wine, if of any other, may be verified that merry induction: That good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.

He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.

We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin. Little sins are pioneers of hell. The backslider begins with what he foolishly considers trifling with little sins. There are no little sins. There was a time when all the evil that has existed in the world was comprehended in one sinful thought of our first parent; and all the now evil is the numerous and horrid progeny of one little sin.

One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.

After rain comes fair weather.

Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.

All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.

Good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.

Distance sometimes endears friendships, and sweetens it - for separation from those we love shows us, by the loss, their real value and dearness to us.

A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three.

Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world. [Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.]

Feed sparingly and defy the physician.

Words and works eat not at one table.

In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.

Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day.

Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.

Man's best candle is his understanding.

He that hath money in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders.

We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin.

The fangs of a bear, and the tusks of a wild boar, do not bite worse and make deeper gashes than a goose-quill sometimes; no, not even the badger himself, who is said to be so tenacious of his bite that he will not give over his hold till he feels his teeth meet and the bones crack.

Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro.