Thomas Nashe
Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.Collection: Beauty
A traveller must have the back of an ass to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing.Collection: Dog
Shape your coat according to your cloth.Collection: Coats
Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the marrow of wit, and the very phrase of angels.Collection: Flower
Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath closed Helen's eye.Collection: Beauty
Blest is that government where no art thrives.Collection: Art
Immortal Spenser, no frailty hath thy fame but the imputation of this idiot's friendship!Collection: Idiot
The Sun shineth as well on the good as the bad: God from on high beholdeth all the workers of iniquity, as well as the upright of heart.Collection: Heart
Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant kingCollection: Sweet
Fair summer droops, droop men and beasts therefore: So fair a summer look for never more. All good things vanish, less than in a day, Peace, plenty, pleasure, suddenly decay. Go not yet away, bright soul of the sad year; The earth is hell when thou leav'st to appear.Collection: Summer
From winter, plague and pestilence, good lord, deliver us!Collection: Winter
New herrings, new!' we must cry, every time we make ourselves public, or else we shall be christened with a hundred new titles of idiotism.Collection: Titles