John Lyly Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.”
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“The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.”
-- John LylySource : John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.42, Manchester University Press
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“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”
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“The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.”
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“Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.”
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“Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.”
-- John LylySource : John Lyly (1868). “Euphues. The Anatomy of Wit. Editio princeps, 1579. Euphues and his England. Editio princeps, 1580. Collated with early subsequent editions ... Carefully edited by Edward Arber”, p.131
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“Things of greatest profit are set forth with least price. Where the wine is neat there needeth no live blush.”
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“If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my poor heart doth think.”
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“Lips are no part of the head, only made for a double-leaf door for the mouth.”
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“For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.”
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“A Rose is sweeter in the budde than full blowne.”
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“Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.”
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“The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.”
-- John LylySource : John Lyly, George K. Hunter, David Bevington (1991). “Campaspe and Sappho and Phao: John Lyly”, p.285, Manchester University Press
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“Where the countenance is fair, there need no colors.”
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“If thy wealth waste, they wit will give but small warmth.”
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“The rattling thunderbolt hath but his clap, the lightning but his flash, and as they both come in a moment, so do they both end in a minute.”
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“It is good walking when one hath his horse in hand.”
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“If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young.”
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“It is the eye of the master that fatteth the horse, and the love of the woman that maketh the man.”
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“A bargain is a bargain.”
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“A new broome sweepeth cleane.”
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“When parents put gold into the hands of youth, when they should put a rod under their girdle--when instead of awe they make them past grace, and leave them rich executors of goods, and poor executors of godliness, then it is no marvel that the son being left rich by his father's will, becomes reckless by his own will.”
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“None but the lark so shrill and clear; Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings, The morn not waking till she sings.”
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“Thou art an heyre to fayre lying, that is nothing, if thou be disinherited of learning, for better were it to thee to inherite righteousnesse then riches, and far more seemly were if for thee to haue thy Studie full of bookes, then thy pursse full of mony.”
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“Gentlemen use books as Gentlewomen handle their flowers, who in the morning stick them in their heads, and at night strawe them at their heeles.”
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“Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it?”
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“Cupid and my Campaspe play'd At cards for kisses; Cupid paid; He stakes his quiver, bow and arrows, His mother's doves, and team of sparrows; Loses them too; then down he throws The coral of his lip,--the rose Growing on 's cheek (but none knows how) With these, the crystal on his brow, And then the dimple of his chin; All these did my campaspe win. At last he set her both his eyes, She won, and Cupid blind did rise. O Love! hath she done this to thee? What shall, alas! become of me?”
-- John Lyly
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