John Florio
John Florio
John Florio, known in Italian as Giovanni Florio , was a linguist and lexicographer, a royal language tutor at the Court of James I, and a possible friend and influence on William Shakespeare. He was also the first translator of Montaigne into English. He was born in London, and in 1580 he married Aline, the sister of poet Samuel Daniel. The couple had three children, Joane Florio, baptised in Oxford in 1585; Edward, in 1588 and Elizabeth, in 1589. He...
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military can-not command
Who hath not served can not command.
command
Who has not served cannot command.
truth physicians lawyer
From the physician and lawyer keep not the truth hidden.
poverty vices inconvenience
Poverty is no vice, but an inconvenience.
suffering world born
Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.
money horse lying
To long for that which comes not. To lie a-bed and sleep not. To serve well and please not. To have a horse that goes not. To have a man obeys not. To lie in jail and hope not. To be sick and recover not. To lose one's way and know not. To wait at door and enter not, and to have a friend we trust not: are ten such spites as hell hath not.
grace phrases use
For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good.
horse men england
England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.
power teeth management
Be circumspect how you offend schollers, for knowe, a serpent tooth bites not so ill, as dooth a schollers angrie quill.
water flesh dresses
Fish marreth the water, and flesh doth dress it
wind sailing sail
Wisdom sails with wind and time.
hands faces lava
One hand washeth another, both the face. [Lat., Una mano lava l'altra, ed ambedue lavano il volto.]
two bags traveler
If you will be a traveler, have always two bags very full. That is one of patience and another of money.
medicine
Patience is the best medicine.