James Howell (1594 – 1666)
British author, diplomat and scholar.
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He that hath eaten a bear-pie, will always smell of the garden.
Happy is he that grows wise by other men's harms.
God consents but not always.
Affection is blind reason.
Appetite is better than surfeit.
To whom thy secret thou dost tell, to him thy freedom thou dost sell.
Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.
The wealth of a churchman God gives it, and the Devil takes it away.
Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
A hungry man is an angry man.
There's fence against all things except death.
Words and works eat not at one table.
Neither go to a wedding nor a christening unbid.
He falls in the pit he digs for others.
The Devil turns his back to a door that is shut.
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