10+ Thomas Overbury Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Thomas Overbury quotes and sayings.

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

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it. — Thomas Overbury

Beauty is only skin deep. — 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

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 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

Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument. — Thomas Overbury

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground. — Thomas Overbury