John Lyly Quotes

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate.

Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.

To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.

The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.