The same water that drives the mill, decayeth it.
Stephen Gosson
English satirist
12 pieces
- Lived
- 1554–1624
- Born
- Canterbury
- Nationality
- Kingdom of England, United Kingdom
- Known as
- writer, poet
- Era
- Renaissance
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Works (12)
He that goes to sea, must smel of the ship; and he that sayles into Poets wil savour of Pitch.
A bad excuse is better, they say, than none at all.
He that readeth good writers, and pickes out their flowers for his owne nose, is lyke a foole.
The Woolf jettes in Weathers felles.
Hyena speakes like a friend, and devoures like a Foe.
The Harpies have Virgins faces, and vultures Talentes.
The Syrens song is the Saylers wrack.
Poets are the whetstones of wit.
After-wittes are ever best.
Pleasure is a sweet tickling of sense, with a present joy.
He is forced to go whom the devil drives.