James Howell Quotes

• I am who I say I am,
  I’m not some fantasy
  of how you think you think you know
  or who I ought to be.

  James Howell

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• Who has the fame to be an early riser may sleep till noon.

  James Howell

• This life at best is but an inn, And we the passengers.

  James Howell

• The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

  James Howell

• Respect a man, he will do it the more.

  James Howell

• Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.

  James Howell

• One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.

  James Howell

• Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man’s candle.

  James Howell

• All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.

  James Howell

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Birth:	1594
Death:	1666
Nationality:	Welsh
Profession:	Historian, Writer

About

James Howell was a 17th-century Anglo-Welsh historian and writer who is in many ways a representative figure of his age. The son of a Welsh clergyman, he was for much of his life in the shadow of his elder brother Thomas Howell, who became Lord Bishop of Bristol. In 1613 he gained his B.A. from Jesus College, Oxford – he was to be elected to a fellowship at Jesus College in 1623, but he was never formally admitted and his place was taken by another in 1626. Until he was 13, he was schooled in Hereford. He went to Oxford at the age of 19.

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