Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.
John Lyly
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
John Lyly
Died: 1606
Died: November 18
Novelist
Playwright
Politician
Writer
Kent
England
John Lilly
John Lylie
John Lyly
Drunkards
Whatsoever
Sober
Mouth
Mouths
Wine
Heart
Men
Drunkard
More quotes by John Lyly
The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
John Lyly
Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.
John Lyly
The wound that bleedeth inward is most dangerous.
John Lyly
[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot.
John Lyly
Nothing so perilous as procrastination
John Lyly
Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.
John Lyly
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
Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.
John Lyly
To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it.
John Lyly
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
Though women have small force to overcome men by reason yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.
John Lyly
I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love which is lawless.
John Lyly
The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever.
John Lyly
Lette me stande to the maine chance.
John Lyly
As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hate.
John Lyly
Long quaffing maketh a short lyfe.
John Lyly
The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
John Lyly
When parents put gold into the hands of youth, when they should put a rod under their girdle--when instead of awe they make them past grace, and leave them rich executors of goods, and poor executors of godliness, then it is no marvel that the son being left rich by his father's will, becomes reckless by his own will.
John Lyly
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.
John Lyly
The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.
John Lyly