Top 87 John Lyly Quotes
#1. As lyke as one pease is to another.
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#2. Fish and guests in three days are stale.
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#3. The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.
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#4. 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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#5. The measure of love is to have no mean, the end to be everlasting.
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#7. The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.
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#8. Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.
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#9. A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts ears, bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, kill'd by dissembling, buried by ingratitude, and this is love.
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#10. He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.
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#11. A comely olde man as busie as a bee.
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#12. 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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#13. The rules of fair play do not apply in love and war.
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#14. Water runneth smoothest where it is deepest.
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#15. A Rose is sweeter in the budde than full blowne.
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#17. Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.
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#18. If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous?
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#19. I thank you for nothing, because I understand nothing.
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#20. Things of greatest profit are set forth with least price. Where the wine is neat there needeth no live blush.
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#21. The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
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#22. All men [are] of one metal, but not in one mold.
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#23. To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.
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#24. Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook.
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#25. Nothing so perilous as procrastination
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#26. We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth.
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#27. Lette me stande to the maine chance.
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#28. The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble.
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#29. For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.
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#30. An Englishman hath three qualities, he can suffer no partner in his love, no stranger to be his friend, nor to be dared by any.
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#31. As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate.
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#32. When adversities flow, then love ebbs; but friendship standeth stiffly in storms.
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#33. To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.
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#34. To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it.
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#35. Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.
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#36. 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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#37. The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
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#38. The wound that bleedeth inward is most dangerous.
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#39. Where the countenance is fair, there need no colors.
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#41. There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.
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#43. A merry companion is as good as a wagon.
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#44. The fallyng out of faithfull frends is the renuyng of loue.
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#45. Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.
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#46. Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.
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#47. I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.
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#48. It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing.
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#49. The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever.
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#50. In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.
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#51. Lips are no part of the head, only made for a double-leaf door for the mouth.
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#52. Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
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#53. Rather fast then surfette, rather starue then striue to exceede.
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#54. 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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#55. Be valyaunt, but not too venturous. Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.
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#56. If thy wealth waste, they wit will give but small warmth.
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#57. 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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#58. The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.
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#59. I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love; which is lawless.
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#60. 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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#61. 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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#62. He that comes in print because he would be known, is like the fool that comes into the market because he would be seen.
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#63. As love knoweth no lawes, so it regardeth no conditions
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#64. Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.
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#65. The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.
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#66. The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.
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#67. Children and fooles speake true.
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#68. Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.
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#69. It is good walking when one hath his horse in hand.
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#70. [Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot.
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#71. The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.
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#72. The night has a thousand eyes.
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#73. Maydens, be they never so foolyshe, yet beeing fayre they are commonly fortunate.
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#74. It is far more seemly
to have thy Studie full of Bookes,
than thy Purse full of money.
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#75. A clear conscience is a sure card.
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#76. Children and fools speak true.
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#77. In misery it is great comfort to have a companion.
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#78. Instruments sound sweetest when they are touched softest.
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#79. Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.
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#80. Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it?
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#81. Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
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#82. Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.
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#83. Long quaffing maketh a short lyfe.
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#84. It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.
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#85. If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young.
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#86. The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.
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#87. All fish are not caught with flies
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