Quotes by Francis Beaumont

• Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.
• Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
• You are no better than you should be.
• There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
• The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.
• Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
• Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
• Kiss till the cow comes home.
• Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.
• Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.
• But what is past my help is past my care.
• Bad's the best of us.
• It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.