Top 30 James Howell Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “We learn by teaching.”

— James Howell

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2. “After rain comes fair weather.”

— James Howell

3. “In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.”

— James Howell

4. “Respect a man, he will do the more.”

— James Howell

5. “All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.”

— James Howell

6. “A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three.”

— James Howell

7. “This life at best is but an inn, and we the passengers.”

— James Howell

8. “Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.”

— James Howell

9. “Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice.”

— James Howell

10. “Distance sometimes endears friendships, and sweetens it – for separation from those we love shows us, by the loss, their real value and dearness to us.”

— James Howell

11. “Good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.”

— James Howell

12. “We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin.”

— James Howell

13. “Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things.”

— James Howell

14. “Fly and you will catch the swallow.”

— James Howell

15. “God guard me from my friends, for I shall guard myself from my enemies.”

— James Howell

16. “Man’s best candle is his understanding.”

— James Howell

17. “He that hath the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.”

— James Howell

18. “Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.”

— James Howell

19. “Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man’s candle.”

— James Howell

20. “The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.”

— James Howell

21. “One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.”

— James Howell

22. “The fangs of a bear, and the tusks of a wild boar, do not bite worse and make deeper gashes than a goose-quill sometimes; no, not even the badger himself, who is said to be so tenacious of his bite that he will not give over his hold till he feels his teeth meet and the bones crack.”

— James Howell

23. “Feed sparingly and defy the physician.”

— James Howell

24. “Words and works eat not at one table.”

— James Howell

25. “He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.”

— James Howell

26. “Love is the life of friendship.”

— James Howell

27. “Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day.”

— James Howell

28. “He that hath money in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders.”

— James Howell

29. “Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.”

— James Howell

30. “Little sins are pioneers of hell.”

— James Howell

31. “Appeles us’d to paint a good housewife upon a snayl; which intimated that she should be as slow from gadding abroad, and when she went she should carry her house upon her back; that is, she should make all sure at home.”

— James Howell

32. “Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.”

— James Howell

33. “God comes at last when we think he is farthest off.”

— James Howell

34. “Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.”

— James Howell