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
aviation
Fly and you will catch the swallow.
inns this-life hotel
This life at best is but an inn, and we the passengers.
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.
easter thee seems
Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.
tables
Words and works eat not at one table.
adversity twenties prosperity
In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.
bees world calves
Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world. [Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.]
wine men blood
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.
political soul ambassadors
Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro.
two secret littles
A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three.
friendship true-friend enemy
He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.
loss weight-loss physicians
Feed sparingly and defy the physician.
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.
philosophy people may
Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.