John Florio Quotes

#1. Wisdom sails with wind and time.

John Florio

#2. If you will be a traveler, have always two bags very full. That is one of patience and another of money.

John Florio

#3. From the physician and lawyer keep not the truth hidden.

John Florio

#4. Patience is the best medicine.

John Florio

#5. Who hath not served can not command.

John Florio

#6. For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good.

John Florio

#7. Be circumspect how you offend schollers, for knowe, a serpent tooth bites not so ill, as dooth a schollers angrie quill.

John Florio

#8. Praise the sea, on shore remain.

John Florio

#9. A good husband makes a good wife.

John Florio

#10. A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.

John Florio

#11. Night is the mother of thoughts.

John Florio

#12. Poverty is no vice, but an inconvenience.

John Florio

#13. Fish marreth the water, and flesh doth dress it

John Florio

#14. Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.

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#15. Who has not served cannot command.

John Florio

#16. England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.

John Florio