John Lyly
John Lyly
John Lylywas an English writer, poet, dramatist, playwright, and politician, best known for his books Euphues: The Anatomy of Witand Euphues and His England. Lyly's mannered literary style, originating in his first books, is known as euphuism...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth3 April 1908
mean love-is ends
The measure of love is to have no mean, the end to be everlasting.
modern-life guests three
Fish and guests in three days are stale.
wine taste enjoy
To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it.
rain marble hard
The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble.
sound instruments sweetest
Instruments sound sweetest when they are touched softest.
sweet poison hook
[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot.
heart ambassadors tongue
The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.
incidents live-well wells
To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.
water
Water runneth smoothest where it is deepest.
feet wagons companion
A merry companion is as good as a wagon, For you shall be sure to ride though ye go a foot.
fool would-be print
He that comes in print because he would be known, is like the fool that comes into the market because he would be seen.
beauty bait hook
Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook.
sweet pain eye
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.
envy envious harm
The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.