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John Lyly Quotes

«He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.»
Author: John Lyly | Keywords: honesty, lose
«The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.»
«As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate.»
«To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind»
Author: John Lyly | About: Reason | Keywords: fancy, the fire, weigh
«We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth»
Author: John Lyly | Keywords: knit, knitting, knot, tongues, undo
«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»
Author: John Lyly | About: Colors, Friends, Misery, Time | Keywords: diminish
«Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame»
Author: John Lyly | About: Heart, Mind
«Long quaffing maketh a short lyfe»
Author: John Lyly | Keywords: quaff, quaffed, quaffing
«It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon»
Author: John Lyly | Keywords: fox, goose
«The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted»
Author: John Lyly | Keywords: corrupted, dunghill