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
color needs countenance
Where the countenance is fair, there need no colors.
giving waste poverty
If thy wealth waste, they wit will give but small warmth.
young be-young ifs
If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young.
horse hands walking
It is good walking when one hath his horse in hand.
honesty life-is length
The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
blessing sun
Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.
teaching young
Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.
wine profit neat
Things of greatest profit are set forth with least price. Where the wine is neat there needeth no live blush.
heart writing thinking
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.
doors mouths lips
Lips are no part of the head, only made for a double-leaf door for the mouth.
bargains
A bargain is a bargain.
mean love-is ends
The measure of love is to have no mean, the end to be everlasting.
incidents live-well wells
To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.
lightning moments minutes
The rattling thunderbolt hath but his clap, the lightning but his flash, and as they both come in a moment, so do they both end in a minute.