Quote

Wrinkle not thy face with too much laughter, lest thou become ridiculous neither wanton thy heart with too much mirth, lest thou become vain: the suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools.

Francis Quarles

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Francis Quarles
Age: 52 †
Born: 1592
Born: May 8
Died: 1644
Died: September 8
Author
Poet
Writer
Havering
Fool
Fools
Cities
Folly
Face
Vain
Wrinkle
Faces
Ridiculous
Wanton
Become
Thou
Mirth
Heart
Laughter
Suburbs
Much
Neither
Wrinkles
City
Lest

More quotes by Francis Quarles

Image
Nor fire, nor rocks, can stop our furious minds, Nor waves, nor winds.
Francis Quarles
Image
Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation.
Francis Quarles
Image
Even as the needle that directs the hour, (Touched with the loadstone) by the secret power Of hidden Nature, points upon the pole Even so the wavering powers of my soul, Touch'd by the virtue of Thy spirit, flee From what is earth, and point alone to Thee.
Francis Quarles
Image
As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain.... Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great.
Francis Quarles
Image
Wouldst thou multiply thy riches? diminish them wisely or wouldst thou make thy estate entire? divide it charitably. Seeds that are scattered increase but, hoarded up, they perish.
Francis Quarles
Image
Immortal life is something to be earned, By slow self-conquest, comradeship with Pain, And patient seeking after higher truths.
Francis Quarles
Image
If thy daughter marry well, thou hast found a son if not, thou hast lost a daughter.
Francis Quarles
Image
It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.
Francis Quarles
Image
Gold is Caesar's treasure, man is God's thy gold hath Caesar's image, and thou hast God's.
Francis Quarles
Image
Of all vices take heed of drunkenness other vices are but fruits of disordered affections--this disorders, nay, banishes reason other vices but impair the soul--this demolishes her two chief faculties, the understanding and the will other vices make their own way--this makes way for all vices he that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.
Francis Quarles
Image
Tis not, to cry God mercy, or to sit And droop, or to confess that thou hast fail'd: 'Tis to bewail the sins thou didst commit: And not commit those sins thou hast bewail' d. He that bewails and not forsakes them too Confesses rather what he means to do.
Francis Quarles
Image
Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors.
Francis Quarles
Image
Scandal breeds hatred hatred begets division division makes faction, and faction brings ruin.
Francis Quarles
Image
With a bloody flux of oaths vows deep revenge.
Francis Quarles
Image
That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
Francis Quarles
Image
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend, rather than the gloss of a sweet-lipped flatterer there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.
Francis Quarles
Image
My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on Judge not the play before the play is done: Her plot hath many changes every day Speaks a new scene the last act crowns the play
Francis Quarles
Image
The World's a Printing-House, our words, our thoughts, Our deeds, are characters of several sizes. Each soul is a Compos'tor, of whose faults The Levites are Correctors Heaven Revises. Death is the common Press, from whence being driven, We're gather'd, Sheet by Sheet, and bound for Heaven.
Francis Quarles
Image
Sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
Francis Quarles
Image
I'll ne'er distrust my God for cloth and bread while lilies flourish and the raven 's fed.
Francis Quarles