Quotes by Florio, John

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

Praise the sea; on shore remain. >>

For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, >>

Quotations about Misers and Misery

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to >>

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of >>

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflectio >>

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.

Florio, John