Bad's the best of us.
Francis Beaumont

But what is past my help is past my care.
Francis Beaumont

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.
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.
Francis Beaumont

Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.
Francis Beaumont

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
Francis Beaumont

Kiss till the cow comes home.
Francis Beaumont

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
Francis Beaumont

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
Francis Beaumont

Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
Francis Beaumont


The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.
Francis Beaumont

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
Francis Beaumont

You are no better than you should be.
Francis Beaumont