Thomas Overbury Professions : Poet Born : 1581 Died : September 14, 1613 Browse All Authors Top 11 quotes by 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 yield flames fire Beauty is only skin deep. Thomas Overbury skins beauty inspirational The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry Thomas Overbury potatoes food men A flatterer is the shadow of a fool. Thomas Overbury flattery fool shadow Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring. Thomas Overbury frail women two Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day Thomas Overbury coal next-day fire Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it. Thomas Overbury absence-makes-the-heart-grow-fonder absent-friends absence 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 ambitious bees world Things were first made, then words. Thomas Overbury made firsts Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument. Thomas Overbury instruments men art The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground. Thomas Overbury Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors
