James Howell

James Howell

James Howell (c.1594 – 1666) was a British author, diplomat and scholar.

Quotes

• He that hath once got the fame of an early riser, may sleep till noon.

English Proverbs (1659)

• Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.

• He that hath eaten a bear-pie, will always smell of the garden.

• A hungry man is an angry man.

• To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.

• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660)

• Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.

• Words and works eat not at one table.

• The Devil turns his back to a door that is shut.

• Happy is he that grows wise by other men's harms.

• God consents but not always.

• Neither go to a wedding nor a christening unbid.

• Affection is blind reason.

• To whom thy secret thou dost tell, to him thy freedom thou dost sell.

• There's fence against all things except death.

• He falls in the pit he digs for others.

• Sometimes an ill favored bitch gnaws a good chord.

• The wealth of a churchman God gives it, and the Devil takes it away.

• Appetite is better than surfeit.

Instructions for Forraine Travel(1642, 1650)

• He will bless God, and love England ever after

( upon a travelling man's return from overseas to England )

External links

• Essays and letters by James Howell at Quotidiana.org