For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots

Quote byJohn Lyly · 1554–1606

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Euphues and His England, P. 311.

English (original)

For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.

— John Lyly

For wenches, wine, and lusty cheer, Jove would leap down to surfeit here.

What bird so sings, yet so does wail? Oh, 'tis the ravished nightingale. "Jug, jug, jug, jug, tereu," she cries, And still her woes at midnight rise.

: Were women never to fair, men would be false. : Were women never so false, men would be fond.

None is happy but a glutton.

O! for a bowl of fat Canary, Rich Palermo, sparkling Sherry.

Be valyaunt, but not too venturous. Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.