A quotation from James Howell

One may live and learn, and be hang’d and forget all.

James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
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One may live and learn, and be hang'd and forget all.

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A quotation from James Howell

Little difference twixt a feast and a belly-ful.

James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
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Little difference twixt a feast and a belly-ful.

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A quotation from James Howell

If the Sky fall we shall have Larks.

James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
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If the Sky fall we shall have Larks. See also Heywood (1546). The same page contains a variant: When the Sky falls we shall catch Larks. 

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A quotation from James Howell

When Adam delv’d and Eve span,
Who was then a Gentleman?

James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
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When Adam delv'd and Eve span, Who was then a Gentleman?

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A quotation from James Howell

Words cutt more than swords.

James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
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Words cutt more than swords. A common proverbial concept before and after. See also the Bible, Shakespeare (1590), Shakespeare (1598), Herbert (1640), Franklin (1744), Irving (1820), Lowell (1914), Sarton (1973), Fry (1997), Ginott (2003).

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A quotation from James Howell

Too much money makes one madd.

James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
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Too much money makes one madd.

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A quotation from James Howell

Look high and fall into a Cow-turd.

James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
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Look high and fall into a Cow-turd.

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A quotation from James Howell

He that gropes in the dark, finds that which he would not.

James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
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He that gropes in the dark, finds that which he would not.

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A quotation from James Howell

He that wrestleth with a turd shall be beshitt fall he over or under.

James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
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He that wrestleth with a turd shall be beshitt fall he over or under.

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A quotation from James Howell

The more haste, the worse speed.

James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
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The more haste, the worse speed. A few pages later, Howell quotes John Heywood (1546) the analogous "The more haste, the less speed." See also See Augustus and Publilius Syrus.

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