Quote

The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.

Edmund Spenser

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
Poet
Translator
London
England
Edmund Spencer
Bite
Bites
Hardly
Fish
Fishes
Caught
Bait

More quotes by Edmund Spenser

Image
Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
Edmund Spenser
Image
Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
Edmund Spenser
Image
Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
Edmund Spenser
Image
For next to Death is Sleepe to be compared Therefore his house is unto his annext: Here Sleepe, ther Richesse, and hel-gate them both betwext.
Edmund Spenser
Image
Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
Edmund Spenser
Image
In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.
Edmund Spenser
Image
Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
Edmund Spenser
Image
Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair
Edmund Spenser
Image
Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.
Edmund Spenser
Image
Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
Edmund Spenser
Image
Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
Edmund Spenser
Image
For all that faire is, is by nature goodThat is a signe to know the gentle blood.
Edmund Spenser
Image
For if good were not praised more than ill, None would chuse goodness of his own free will.
Edmund Spenser
Image
Man's wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
Edmund Spenser
Image
Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.
Edmund Spenser
Image
The man whom nature's self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
Edmund Spenser
Image
Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? - Epithalamion
Edmund Spenser
Image
Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke.
Edmund Spenser
Image
But O the exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels, he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
Edmund Spenser
Image
All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
Edmund Spenser