James Howell

The Netherlands have been for many years, as one may say, the very cockpit of Christendom.

He will bless God, and love England ever after

Appetite is better than surfeit.

The wealth of a churchman God gives it, and the Devil takes it away.

Sometimes an ill favored bitch gnaws a good chord.

He falls in the pit he digs for others.

There's fence against all things except death.

To whom thy secret thou dost tell, to him thy freedom thou dost sell.

Affection is blind reason.

Neither go to a wedding nor a christening unbid.

God consents but not always.

Happy is he that grows wise by other men's harms.

The Devil turns his back to a door that is shut.

Words and works eat not at one table.

Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Cf. The Shining (1980 film)

To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.

A hungry man is an angry man.

He that hath eaten a bear-pie, will always smell of the garden.

Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.

He that hath once got the fame of an early riser, may sleep till noon.

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

Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates are secretaries of Nature.

Some hold translations not unlike to be The wrong side of a Turkey tapestry.