John Florio Quotes

#1. Praise the sea, on shore remain.

John Florio

#2. The format's better because it gives us a much stronger hand to play when going to the North Koreans unified, with our allies and partners in the region, all of us saying the same thing: telling them their current course is unacceptable.

Mitchell Reiss

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

John Florio

#4. If I'm moving too fast or coming on too hard...

N.D. Jones

#5. Who has not served cannot command.

John Florio

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

John Florio

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

John Florio

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

John Florio

#9. Night is the mother of thoughts.

John Florio

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

John Florio

#11. A good husband makes a good wife.

John Florio

#12. All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell.

C.S. Lewis

#13. He can supply thee with all, or, better still, He can be to thee instead of all.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

John Florio

#15. You're a Demigod Percy, half god and half mortal!

Rick Riordan

#16. 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

#17. Who hath not served can not command.

John Florio

#18. Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.

Ezra Taft Benson

#19. Patience is the best medicine.

John Florio

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

John Florio

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

John Florio

#22. Wisdom sails with wind and time.

John Florio

#23. If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

Francis Bacon