THOMAS OVERBURY

Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.

A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.

Beauty is only skin deep.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.

Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day

Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.

Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.

An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous

Things were first made, then words.

Beauty is only skin deep.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.

Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.

A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.

Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.

An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous

Things were first made, then words.

Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day