John Lyly Quotes

Rather fast then surfette, rather starue then striue to exceede. ~ John Lyly

Long quaffing maketh a short lyfe. ~ John Lyly

I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom. ~ John Lyly

The fallyng out of faithfull frends is the renuyng of loue. ~ John Lyly

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. ~ John Lyly

He that comes in print because he would be known, is like the fool that comes into the market because he would be seen. ~ John Lyly

Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money. ~ John Lyly

To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it. ~ John Lyly

It is a world to see. ~ John Lyly

A merry companion is as good as a wagon. ~ John Lyly

Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection. ~ John Lyly

Where the countenance is fair, there need no colors. ~ John Lyly

When parents put gold into the hands of youth, when they should put a rod under their girdle
when instead of awe they make them past grace, and leave them rich executors of goods, and poor executors of godliness, then it is no marvel that the son being left rich by his father's will, becomes reckless by his own will. ~ John Lyly

Things of greatest profit are set forth with least price. Where the wine is neat there needeth no live blush. ~ John Lyly

Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish ~ John Lyly

The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail. ~ John Lyly

If thy wealth waste, they wit will give but small warmth. ~ John Lyly

The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee. ~ John Lyly

A clear conscience is a sure card. ~ John Lyly

Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing. ~ John Lyly

Lette me stande to the maine chance. ~ John Lyly

All fish are not caught with flies ~ John Lyly

Maydens, be they never so foolyshe, yet beeing fayre they are commonly fortunate. ~ John Lyly

The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well. ~ John Lyly

A bargain is a bargain. ~ John Lyly

An Englishman hath three qualities, he can suffer no partner in his love, no stranger to be his friend, nor to be dared by any. ~ John Lyly

The rules of fair play do not apply in love and war. ~ John Lyly

We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth. ~ John Lyly

To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind. ~ John Lyly

A Rose is sweeter in the budde than full blowne. ~ John Lyly

Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest. ~ John Lyly

Fish and guests in three days are stale. ~ John Lyly

When adversities flow, then love ebbs; but friendship standeth stiffly in storms. ~ John Lyly

Thou art an heyre to fayre lying, that is nothing, if thou be disinherited of learning, for better were it to thee to inherite righteousnesse then riches, and far more seemly were if for thee to haue thy Studie full of bookes, then thy pursse full of mony. ~ John Lyly

He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose. ~ John Lyly

The night has a thousand eyes. ~ John Lyly

Instruments sound sweetest when they are touched softest. ~ John Lyly

I thank you for nothing, because I understand nothing. ~ John Lyly

The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted. ~ John Lyly

Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy. ~ John Lyly

The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel. ~ John Lyly

Nothing so perilous as procrastination ~ John Lyly

Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature. ~ John Lyly

Children and fooles speake true. ~ John Lyly

Lips are no part of the head, only made for a double-leaf door for the mouth. ~ John Lyly

There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire. ~ John Lyly

For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots. ~ John Lyly

In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance. ~ John Lyly

The measure of love is to have no mean, the end to be everlasting. ~ John Lyly

As love knoweth no lawes, so it regardeth no conditions ~ John Lyly

A comely olde man as busie as a bee. ~ John Lyly

All men [are] of one metal, but not in one mold. ~ John Lyly

The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever. ~ John Lyly

As lyke as one pease is to another. ~ John Lyly

If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous? ~ John Lyly

It is far more seemly
to have thy Studie full of Bookes,
than thy Purse full of money.
~ John Lyly

I wasn't disappointed. My expectations had been met. ~ John Green

I look at Jane for a long time and a slow smile creeps over her face. Her whole face changes when she smiles - this eyebrow-lifting, perfect-teeth-showing, eye-crinkling smile I've either never seen or never noticed. She becomes pretty so suddenly that it's almost like a magic trick ~ John Green

I haven't played a chess match for several decades. At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realized many of my competitors were memorizing the best moves and I was unwilling to do this. ~ John Harsanyi

The bad parts of the statute are not judicially severable, I consider, from the rest of its provisions that deal with imprisonment. Their roots are entangled too tenaciously in the surrounding soil for a clean extraction to be feasible. The conclusion to which I accordingly come is that we are left with no option but to declare those provisions as a whole to be constitutionally invalid on account of their objectionable overbreadth. ~ John Didcott

Roland raised his eyebrows. "Thanks to John Farson, the Crimson King's men won the In-World lands long ago," he said. But then he smiled. It was a sunny expression so unlike his usual look that seeing it always made Susannah feel dizzy. "But I think we won the only battle that matters. What's shown in this picture is no more than someone's wishful fairy-tale. ~ Stephen King

What gets measured gets done, what gets measured and fed back gets done well, what gets rewarded gets repeated ~ John E. Jones III

We never be hopeless, beacuse we never be irrapablely broken. ~ John Green

I need a lover that won't drive me crazy, someone that knows the meaning of hey, hit the highway. ~ John Mellencamp

And the stigma hasn't really changed that much in 31 years. You are still getting people - it's a shame-based disease. It's based on sexual transmission. And it's still shame-based. And until people feel strong enough and feel loved enough to actually open up and say, listen, I'm HIV-positive, then we are facing an uphill battle. ~ Elton John

To predispose our mind to welcome the Lord who, as we say in the Creed, one day will come to judge the living and the dead, we must learn to recognize him as present in the events of daily life. Therefore, Advent is, so to speak, an intense training that directs us decisively toward him who already came, who will come, and who comes continuously. ~ Pope John Paul II

Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you've been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction. ~ John C. Maxwell

A mentor must always guide, never push. It was my job to listen to them, offer my perspective, and encourage them to pursue the ideals they believed to be true. ~ John Wooden

For Man to tell how human life began is hard; for who himself beginning knew? ~ John Milton

Love is doing what will enthrall the beloved with the greatest and longest joy. What will enthrall the beloved this way is the glory of God. Love means doing all we can, at whatever cost to ourselves, to help people be enthralled with the glory of God. When they are, they are satisfied and God is glorified. Therefore loving people and glorifying God are one. ~ John Piper

You don't build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build. ~ John Abizaid

Like the NRA says, it's better to have a machine gun and not need it than to need a machine gun and not have it. ~ John Sandford

The more we know about how we lost our spontaneous wonder and creativity, the more we can find ways to get them back. ~ John Bradshaw

When we find out an Idea, by whose Intervention we discover the Connexion of two others, this is a Revelation from God to us, by the voice of Reason. ~ John Locke

Many photographers are consumed with the idea of making beautiful contact sheets. I am far more interested in making the best final print I can. ~ John Sexton

God works in his elect in two ways: inwardly, by his Spirit; outwardly, by his Word. ~ John Calvin

When I finally write the first sentence, I want to know everything that happens, so that I am not inventing the story as I write it - rather, I am remembering a story that has already happened. ~ John Irving

A working class hero is something to be. ~ John Lennon

All its dimensions with their projected geometries are those of an unrealisible dream. ~ John Berger

I don't want to pay good money to hear ordinary people's lunatic views. Most of the people who phone in are [lunatics] - certainly in Britain. ~ John Gimlette

By five minutes of four I was checked into the hotel. They had a lot of room. They had three conventions going and they still had a lot of room. Once inside the hotel, I was right back in Miami. Same scent to the chilled air, same skeptical servility, same glorious decor - as if a Brazilian architect had mated an air terminal with a manufacturer of cotton padding. Lighting, dramatic. At any moment the star of the show will step back from one of the eight (8) bars and break into song and the girlies will come prancing in. Keep those knees high, kids. Keep laughing. ~ John D. MacDonald

He showed me the lowest. I had to surmise the highest. ~ John Howard Griffin

It's all about choices! You choose, you make the rules, not tobacco companies, not addiction ~ John Kehoe

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do. ~ John Holt

Pot put me in a position where I could walk far away from my playing and hear it in the second person. It helped me step away from myself. I stopped seeing the guitar as a thing I'm holding in my hands and started seeing it as a thing that's at one with outer space and nothingness. ~ John Frusciante

What Brother Pepe saw in Edward Bonshaw was a man who looked like he belonged - like a man who had never felt at home, but who'd suddenly found his place in the scheme of things. ~ John Irving

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England. ~ John Irving

You are not going to change me and if you do, it will look like a fraud, it will be a fraud. ~ John Key

The way you look at things is the most powerful force in shaping your life. ~ John O'Donohue

I have a, you know, a John Ritter-shaped hole in my heart. Nobody can replace that. ~ Amy Yasbeck

He comes where we are, and he brings us the life we hunger for. An early report reads, "Life was in him, life that made sense of human existence" (John 1:4). To be the light of life, and to deliver God's life to women and men where they are and as they are, is the secret of the enduring relevance of Jesus. Suddenly they are flying right-side up, in a world that makes sense. ~ Dallas Willard

As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other. ~ John Stuart Mill

The difference between being nice and being a doormat depends on whether you're choosing the time of your generosity or someone else is. ~ John Mulhall

The world can't take these smiles away. ~ John Reuben Zappin

I was always an outsider, proud of being an outsider. I always reveled in the outsiders. ~ John Zorn

Tis not for mortals always to be blest. ~ John Armstrong

The Bible Belt, the religious South, is the section of the country that practiced slavery until the war made them give it up. They practiced segregation. They practiced lynchings. I don't see any great value in that. ~ John Shelby Spong

I'd played with Jon Wurster as a duo just for a lark. ~ John Darnielle

I once loved a girl who almost loved me, but not as much as she loved John Cusack. ~ Chuck Klosterman

We are confronted primarily with a moral issue ... whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities, whether we are going to treat our fellow Americans as we want to be treated. ~ John F. Kennedy