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James Howell
28 quotes
“Some hold translations not unlike to be The wrong side of a Turkey tapestry.”
James Howell (1594–1666) said by 1666 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates are secretaries of Nature.”
James Howell (1594–1666) said by 1666 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.”
James Howell (1594–1666) said by 1666 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: English proverb (english)
“He that hath once got the fame of an early riser, may sleep till noon.”
James Howell (1594–1666) said by 1666 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.”
James Howell (1594–1666) said by 1666 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He that hath eaten a bear-pie, will always smell of the garden.”
James Howell (1594–1666) said by 1666 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A hungry man is an angry man.”
James Howell (1594–1666) said by 1666 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoting Bob Marley, he argued that working children should be given incentives to join school, as quoted in "Education right scales last big peak" Calcutta Telegraph (5 August 2009)
Also quoted by: Tathagata Satpathy, English proverb (english), Olusegun Obasanjo
“To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.”
James Howell (1594–1666) said by 1666 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”
James Howell (1594–1666) said by 1666 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: English proverb (english)
“Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.”
James Howell (1594–1666) said by 1666 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Words and works eat not at one table.”
James Howell (1594–1666) said by 1666 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Devil turns his back to a door that is shut.”
James Howell (1594–1666) said by 1666 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Happy is he that grows wise by other men's harms.”
James Howell (1594–1666) said by 1666 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God consents but not always.”
James Howell (1594–1666) said by 1666 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Neither go to a wedding nor a christening unbid.”
James Howell (1594–1666) said by 1666 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Affection is blind reason.”
James Howell (1594–1666) said by 1666 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To whom thy secret thou dost tell, to him thy freedom thou dost sell.”
James Howell (1594–1666) said by 1666 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There's fence against all things except death.”
James Howell (1594–1666) said by 1666 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He falls in the pit he digs for others.”
James Howell (1594–1666) said by 1666 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sometimes an ill favored bitch gnaws a good chord.”
James Howell (1594–1666) said by 1666 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The wealth of a churchman God gives it, and the Devil takes it away.”
James Howell (1594–1666) said by 1666 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Appetite is better than surfeit.”
James Howell (1594–1666) said by 1666 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He will bless God, and love England ever after”
James Howell (1594–1666) said by 1666 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Netherlands have been for many years, as one may say, the very cockpit of Christendom.”
James Howell (1594–1666) said by 1666 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Words are the soul's embassadors, who go Abroad upon her errands to and fro; They are the sole expounders of the mind, And correspondence keep 'twist all mankind. They are those airy keys that ope (and wrest Sometimes) the locks and hinges of the breast. By them the heart makes sallies: wit and sense Belong to them: they are the quintescence Of those ideas which the thoughts distil, And so calcine and melt again, until They drop forth into accents; in whom lies The salt of fancy, and all faculties.”
James Howell (1594–1666) said by 1666 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in John F. Addington (ed.) Poetical Quotations (Philadelphia: John Grigg, 1829) p. 280
“'Tis only man can words create, And cut the air to sounds articulate By nature's special charter. Nay, speech can Make a shrewd discrepance 'twist man and man: It doth the gentleman from clown discover; And from a fool the grave philosopher; As Solon said to one in judgment weak, I thought thee wise until I heard thee speak.”
James Howell (1594–1666) said by 1666 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Poetical Quotations (1829) p. 280
“Words are the life of knowledge; they set free, And bring forth truth by way of midwif'ry: The activ'st creatures of the teeming brain, The judges who the inward man arraign: Reason's chief engine and artillery To batter error, and make falsehood fly; The cannons of the mind, who sometimes bounce Nothing but war, then peace again pronounce.”
James Howell (1594–1666) said by 1666 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Poetical Quotations (1829) p. 280
“Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape, And of rude commons rich enclosures make.”
James Howell (1594–1666) said by 1666 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Sarah Josepha Hale (ed.) The Poet's Offering: for 1850 (Philadelphia: Grigg, Elliot & Co., 1850) p. 32