Quotes by John Lyly

After three days, fish and guests stink.

It is a world to see.

Be valyaunt, but not too venturous. Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.

Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish.

Instruments sound sweetest when they are touched softest.

Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.

There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.

Your eyes are so sharpe that you cannot onely looke through a Milstone, but cleane through the minde.

A Rose is sweeter in the budde than full blowne.

The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble.