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Quotes by George Wither
through a Crowd of People. Be she fairer than the day, Or the flowery meads in May, If she be not so to me, What care I how fair she be?— filed under Beauty
When with a serious musing I behold The graceful and obsequious marigold, How duly every morning she displays Her open breast, when Titan spreads his rays.— filed under Flowers-Lotus
Charleston Bar Dinner. May 10, 1847. And he that gives us in these days New Lords may give us new laws.— filed under Occupations-Law
Dialogue I. Jack shall pipe, and Jill shall dance. ii.— filed under Proverbs
Little said is soonest mended.— filed under Proverbs
It is having in some measure a sort of wit to know how to use the wit of others. STANISLAUS (King of Poland)-Maxims and Moral Sentences. Though I am young, I scorn to flit On the wings of borrowed wit.— filed under Wit
Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures. Shall I, wasting in despaire, Dye because a woman's faire? Or make pale my cheeks with care Cause another's rosie are? Be shee fairer than the day, Or the flow'ry meads in May; If she be not so to me, What care I how faire shee be?— filed under Woman