James Howell
James Howell
James Howellwas a 17th-century Anglo-Welsh historian and writer who is in many ways a representative figure of his age. The son of a Welsh clergyman, he was for much of his life in the shadow of his elder brother Thomas Howell, who became Lord Bishop of Bristol...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWriter
tables
Words and works eat not at one table.
easter thee seems
Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.
evil parent world
We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin. Little sins are pioneers of hell. The backslider begins with what he foolishly considers trifling with little sins. There are no little sins. There was a time when all the evil that has existed in the world was comprehended in one sinful thought of our first parent; and all the now evil is the numerous and horrid progeny of one little sin.
nature advice research
Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things.
home house paint
Appeles us'd to paint a good housewife upon a snayl; which intimated that she should be as slow from gadding abroad, and when she went she should carry her house upon her back; that is, she should make all sure at home.
friendship true-friend enemy
He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.
home paint used
Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.
bees world calves
Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world. [Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.]
giving teeth cracks
The fangs of a bear, and the tusks of a wild boar, do not bite worse and make deeper gashes than a goose-quill sometimes; no, not even the badger himself, who is said to be so tenacious of his bite that he will not give over his hold till he feels his teeth meet and the bones crack.
two secret littles
A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three.
easter chocolate-eggs gone
Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day.
distance sometimes absence
Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.
wine men blood
French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomach, but this is the wine that digests, and doth not only breed good blood, but it nutrifieth also, being a glutinous substantial liquor; of this wine, if of any other, may be verified that merry induction: That good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.
respect men
Respect a man, he will do the more.