Quotes from John Lyly

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

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

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

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

A penny for your thought.

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

Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.

We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth.

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

Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.

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

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

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