Francis Beaumont Quotes

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.

Kiss till the cow comes home.

As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell.

Those have most power to hurt us, that we love.

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.

Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.

Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest.

My hard fortunes
Deserve not scorn; for I was never proud
When they were good.

You are no better than you should be.

Our lives are but our marches to the grave.

But what is past my help is past my care.

The fool that willingly provokes a woman, has made himself another evil angel and a new hell to which all other torments are but mere pastime...

Nose, nose, jolly red nose,And who gave thee that jolly red nose?Nutmegs and ginger, cinammon and cloves;And they gave me this jolly red nose.

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy.

Bad's the best of us.

Grace comes often clad in the dusky robe of desolation.

Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

As men do walk a mile, women should talk an hour, After supper. 'Tis their exercise.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

There's nothing that allays an angry mind So soon as a sweet beauty.

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint,
And sweet thyme true,
Primrose, first born child of Ver,
Merry Spring-time's harbinger.

It is a word that's quickly spoken, which being unrestrained, a heart is broken

Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.