Quote

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

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
White
Write
Earth
Twere
Enough
Ink
Writing
Doth
Heart
Sea
Think
Paper
Thinking
Poor

More quotes by John Lyly

Image
The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.
John Lyly
Image
As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hate.
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
Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.
John Lyly
Image
The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
John Lyly
Image
The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.
John Lyly
Image
Nothing so perilous as procrastination
John Lyly
Image
Though women have small force to overcome men by reason yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.
John Lyly
Image
Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it?
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
A bargain is a bargain.
John Lyly
Image
He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.
John Lyly
Image
Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.
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
I thank you for nothing, because I understand nothing.
John Lyly
Image
To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.
John Lyly
Image
Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.
John Lyly
Image
Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.
John Lyly
Image
The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.
John Lyly