Beauty
is only skin deep.
Thomas Overbury
- Wit and woman are two frail things,
and both the frailer by concurring.
Thomas Overbury
- A flatterer is the shadow of a
fool.
Thomas Overbury
- Things were first made, then
words.
Thomas Overbury
- Absence doth sharpen love,
presence strengthens it.
Thomas Overbury
- An Ambitious woman shewes her
selfe to bee a
troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to
make
smale things great, and great monstrous
Thomas Overbury
- 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
- Nature is God's. Art is man's
instrument.
- The man who has nothing to
boast of but his illustrious ancestry
is like the potato. The best part is underground.
Thomas Overbury
- Good deeds in this life are
coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day
Thomas Overbury