Quotes from James Howell

Respect a man, he will do it the more.

After these two, Dr. Diet and Dr. Quiet, Dr. Merriman is requisite to preserve health.

Respect a man, he will do the more.

Man's best candle is his understanding.

After rain comes fair weather.

Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things.

God guard me from my friends, for I shall guard myself from my enemies.

Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.

It's no use crying over spilt milkWhat's done, is done.

Respect a man, he will do the more.

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

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

This life at best is but an inn, and we the passengers.

We learn by teaching.

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

Who has the fame to be an early riser may sleep till noon.

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

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.

Love is the life of friendship.

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

He that hath the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.

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

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

An acre of performance is worth the whole world of promise.