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Quotes by Jeremy Taylor
No man can be provident of his time that is not prudent in the choice of his company.— filed under Companionship
He that would die well must always look for death, every day knocking at the gates of the grave; and then the gates of the grave shall never prevail upon him to do him mischief.— filed under Death
Nature, Measures, and Offices of Friendship. When I choose my friend, I will not stay till I have received a kindness; but I will choose such a one that can do me many if I need them; but I mean such kindnesses which make me wiser, and which make me better.— filed under Friends
A good man is the best friend, and therefore soonest to be chosen, longer to be retained; and indeed, never to be parted with, unless he cease to be that for which he was chosen.— filed under Ali Ben Abu Taleb
Nature, Measures, and Offices of Friendship. Choose for your friend him that is wise and good, and secret and just, ingenious and honest, and in those things which have a latitude, use your own liberty.— filed under Ali Ben Abu Taleb
SWIFT-Polite Conversation. Dialogue II. Friendship is like rivers, and the strand of seas, and the air, common to all the world; but tyrants, and evil customs, wars, and want of love, have made them proper and peculiar.— filed under Fruits
Nature, Measures, and Offices of Friendship. ( Nature and religion are the bands of friendship, excellence and usefulness are its great endearments.— filed under Fruits
Nature, Measures, and Offices of Friendship. Some friendships are made by nature, some by contract, some by interest, and some by souls.— filed under Fruits
Ignorance is the mother of devotion.— filed under Imagination
Drunkenness is an immoderate affection and use of drink. That I call immoderation that is besides or beyond that order of good things for which God hath given us the use of drink.— filed under Invention
Thus Nero went up and down Greece and challenged the fiddlers at their trade. Æropus, a Macedonian king, made lanterns; Harcatius, the king of Parthia, was a molecatcher; and Biantes, the Lydian, filed needles.— filed under Observation
*** Because as the sun reflecting upon the wind of strands and shores is unpolluted in its beams, so is God not dishonoured when we suppose him in every of his creatures, and in every part of every one of them.— filed under Summer
Aug. 12, 1720. He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he be exalted above his neighbors because he hath more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine!— filed under Wealth