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Stephen Gosson
13 quotes
“He is forced to go whom the devil drives.”
Stephen Gosson (1554–1624) first seen 1579 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Ephemerides of Phialo (1579) p. 2
“Pleasure is a sweet tickling of sense, with a present joy.”
Stephen Gosson (1554–1624) first seen 1579 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Ephemerides of Phialo (1579) p. 66
“After-wittes are ever best.”
Stephen Gosson (1554–1624) said by 1624 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Poets are the whetstones of wit.”
Stephen Gosson (1554–1624) said by 1624 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Syrens song is the Saylers wrack.”
Stephen Gosson (1554–1624) said by 1624 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Harpies have Virgins faces, and vultures Talentes.”
Stephen Gosson (1554–1624) said by 1624 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hyena speakes like a friend, and devoures like a Foe.”
Stephen Gosson (1554–1624) said by 1624 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Woolf jettes in Weathers felles.”
Stephen Gosson (1554–1624) said by 1624 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He that readeth good writers, and pickes out their flowers for his owne nose, is lyke a foole.”
Stephen Gosson (1554–1624) said by 1624 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A bad excuse is better, they say, than none at all.”
Stephen Gosson (1554–1624) said by 1624 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He that goes to sea, must smel of the ship; and he that sayles into Poets wil savour of Pitch.”
Stephen Gosson (1554–1624) said by 1624 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The same water that drives the mill, decayeth it.”
Stephen Gosson (1554–1624) said by 1624 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cedant arma togæ, concedat laurea linguæ.”
Stephen Gosson (1554–1624) said by 1624 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source