John Florio Quotes

• Who has not served cannot command.

  John Florio

  Command

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• 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.

  John Florio

  Money, Horse, Lying

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• Night is the mother of thoughts.

  John Florio

  Mother, Night

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• A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.

  John Florio

  Couple, Husband, Humorous

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• A good husband makes a good wife.

  John Florio

  Inspirational, Marriage, Husband

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• Patience is the best medicine.

  John Florio

  Patience, Medicine

  First Frutes

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• Wisdom sails with wind and time.

  John Florio

  Wind, Sailing, Sail

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• From the physician and lawyer keep not the truth hidden.

  John Florio

  Truth, Physicians, Lawyer

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• If you will be a traveler, have always two bags very full. That is one of patience and another of money.

  John Florio

  Two, Bags, Traveler

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• Be circumspect how you offend schollers, for knowe, a serpent tooth bites not so ill, as dooth a schollers angrie quill.

  John Florio

  Power, Teeth, Management

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• Poverty is no vice, but an inconvenience.

  John Florio

  Vices, Poverty, Inconvenience

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• Who hath not served can not command.

  John Florio

  Military, Command, Can Not

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• One hand washeth another, both the face.
  [Lat., Una mano lava l'altra, ed ambedue lavano il volto.]

  John Florio

  Hands, Lava, Faces

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• England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.

  John Florio

  Horse, Men, Paradise

  'Second Frutes' (1591) ch. 12

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• Praise the sea; on shore remain.

  John Florio

  Rain, Ocean, Sea

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• 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.

  John Florio

  Grace, Phrases, Use

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• Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.

  John Florio

  Suffering, World, Born

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• Fish marreth the water, and flesh doth dress it

  John Florio

  Water, Dresses, Flesh

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