“He that hath once got the fame of an early riser, may sleep till noon.”
Origine: [Howell, James, Epistolae Ho-Elianae, https://books.google.com/books?id=v79CAAAAcAAJ&q=%22till%20noon%22, Google Books, 1655 Edition, 20 September 2016]
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James Howell: Frasi in inglese
“Neither go to a wedding nor a christening unbid.”
Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660)
“He falls in the pit he digs for others.”
Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660)
“He will bless God, and love England ever after”
Instructions for Forraine Travel(1642, 1650)
“Words and works eat not at one table.”
Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660)
“Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.”
English Proverbs (1659)
“The wealth of a churchman God gives it, and the Devil takes it away.”
Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660)
“Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.”
Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660)
“There's fence against all things except death.”
Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660)
“To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.”
English Proverbs (1659)
“The Devil turns his back to a door that is shut.”
Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660)
“Appetite is better than surfeit.”
Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660)
“To whom thy secret thou dost tell, to him thy freedom thou dost sell.”
Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660)
“Happy is he that grows wise by other men's harms.”
Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660)
“Sometimes an ill favored bitch gnaws a good chord.”
Lexicon Tetraglotton (1660)
