Thomas Overbury Quotes

• The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry
  is like the potato. The best part is underground.

  Thomas Overbury

  Food, Men, Potatoes

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• Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.

  Thomas Overbury

  Art, Men, Instruments

  Thomas Sackville Dorset (Earl of), Sir Thomas Overbury (1760). “Prolusions; or, Select pieces of antient poetry,--compil'd with great care from their several originals: and offer'd to the publick as specimens of the integrity that should be found in the editions of worthy authors, in three parts ... with a preface ...”, p.64

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• Beauty is only skin deep.

  Thomas Overbury

  Inspiración, Belleza, Pieles

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• Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.

  Thomas Overbury

  Fire, Yield, Flames

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• Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.

  Thomas Overbury

  Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder, Absence, Absent Friends

  Thomas Overbury (1856). “The miscellaneous works in prose and verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, now first collected: Edited with notes, and a biograph. account of the author by E. F. Rimbault”, p.190

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• A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.

  Thomas Overbury

  Shadow, Fool, Flattery

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• Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day

  Thomas Overbury

  Next Day, Fire, Coal

  Sir Thomas Overbury (1756). “The Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose of Sir Thomas Overbury, Knt. with Memoirs of His Life”, p.252

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• Things were first made, then words.

  Thomas Overbury

  Firsts, Made

  Sir Thomas Overbury, Edward Francis Rimbault (1856). “The miscellaneous works in prose and verse of Sir Thomas Overbury”, p.38

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• Una mujer ambiciosa se muestra como una perturbadora molesta del mundo, poderosa para hacer grandes las cosas pequeñas y monstruosas las grandes.

  Thomas Overbury

  Ambitious, World, Bees

  "The Just Downfall of Ambition, Adultery and Murder" by Thomas Overbury,

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• Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.

  Thomas Overbury

  Women, Two, Frail

  Sir Thomas Overbury (1756). “The Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose of Sir Thomas Overbury, with Memoirs of His Life. The Tenth Edition”, p.239

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