John Florio Quotes

Giovanni Florio known as John Florio, was a translator, linguist, lexicographer, and royal language tutor at the Court of James I. He is recognised as the most important humanist in Renaissance's England, and he was also the first translator of Montaigne into English. He has been proposed among the alternative candidates for the authorship of Shakespeare's works. ...more

England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.

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

Topic(s): World , Suffering , Born

For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good.

Topic(s): Use , Language , Grace

Who hath not served can not command.

Topic(s): Military , Command , Can Not

One hand washeth another, both the face.[Lat., Una mano lava l’altra, ed ambedue lavano il volto.]

Topic(s): Hands , Faces , Lava

Be circumspect how you offend schollers, for knowe, a serpent tooth bites not so ill, as dooth a schollers angrie quill.

Topic(s): Power , Management , Ill

Praise the sea; on shore remain.

Topic(s): Water , Sea , Ocean

A good husband makes a good wife.

Topic(s): Inspirational , Wife , Husband

If you will be a traveler, have always two bags very full. That is one of patience and another of money.

Topic(s): Ifs , Two , Bags

Poverty is no vice, but an inconvenience.

Topic(s): Poverty , Vices , Inconvenience

Night is the mother of thoughts.

Topic(s): Mother , Night

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

Topic(s): Wind , Sail , Sailing

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John Florio Quotes