James Howell Quotes
After rain comes fair weather.
Howell, James. Paroimiographia. Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages. London: J.G., 1659.
1st Earl of Beaconsfield. He describes this as “the National Motto of England.” Many people associate the phrase with Charles Dicken’s (David Copperfield) character Mr. Micawber, but this was written 22 years after Disraeli.
This was the worst storm that hit the East Coast that anyone could remember. The East Coast Governors together with the Federal and local governments performed magnificently keeping the fatalities very low considering the ferocity of the storm and the tens of millions of people affected, With all the destruction, there were no storm caused fatalities in Atlantic City.
James Howell (c. 1594 – 1666) was a 17th-century Anglo-Welsh historian and writer who is in many ways a representative figure of his age. The son of a Welsh clergyman, he was for much of his life in the shadow of his elder brother Thomas Howell, who became Lord Bishop of Bristol.
