John Florio Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Who has not served cannot command. — John Florio

A good husband makes a good wife. — John Florio

Praise the sea, on shore remain. — John Florio

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

Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born. — John Florio

England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses. — John Florio

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

From the physician and lawyer keep not the truth hidden. — John Florio

A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple. — John Florio

Poverty is no vice, but an inconvenience. — John Florio

Night is the mother of thoughts. — John Florio

Patience is the best medicine. — John Florio

Who hath not served can not command. — John Florio

Fish marreth the water, and flesh doth dress it — John Florio

Wisdom sails with wind and time. — John Florio