Francis Quarles Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.”

“Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.”

“Wickedness is its own punishment.”

“The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.”

“Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.”

“Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.”

“It is the lot of man but once to die.”