Quote

The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.

John Lyly

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Lyly
Died: 1606
Died: November 18
Novelist
Playwright
Politician
Writer
Kent
England
John Lilly
John Lylie
John Lyly
Every
Sloth
Always
Laziness
Idle
Engage
Tomorrow
Ready
Talk
Done
Slothful

More quotes by John Lyly

Image
To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it.
John Lyly
Image
A comely olde man as busie as a bee.
John Lyly
Image
The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.
John Lyly
Image
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.
John Lyly
Image
I thank you for nothing, because I understand nothing.
John Lyly
Image
If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous?
John Lyly
Image
Water runneth smoothest where it is deepest.
John Lyly
Image
A merry companion is as good as a wagon, For you shall be sure to ride though ye go a foot.
John Lyly
Image
As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hate.
John Lyly
Image
Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it?
John Lyly
Image
Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.
John Lyly
Image
The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.
John Lyly
Image
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.
John Lyly
Image
None but the lark so shrill and clear Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings, The morn not waking till she sings.
John Lyly
Image
In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.
John Lyly
Image
The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever.
John Lyly
Image
The wound that bleedeth inward is most dangerous.
John Lyly
Image
Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.
John Lyly
Image
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.
John Lyly
Image
Nothing so perilous as procrastination
John Lyly