Thomas Nashe

“Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath closed Helen's eye.”

“Adieu, farewell, earth's bliss; This world uncertain is.”

“All good things are cheap, all bad are very dear.”

“Rich men, trust not in wealth, Gold cannot buy you health.”

“Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.”

“Fools live in a Paradise of their own making.”

“Learning is a sceptre to some, a bauble to others.”

“The sun for sorrow will not shine.”

“Wit is the pupil of the soul's clear eye.”

“Sin is a cogging, flattering parasite.”

“From winter, plague, and pestilence, good Lord, deliver us!”

“There is no ballast like religion.”

“Impudence is the bastard brother of true Courage.”

“A scholar and a soldier are the two noblest professions.”

“Divinity, wrested by some, proves the bane of themselves and their posterity.”

“Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath closed Helen's eye.”

“All good things are cheap, all bad are very dear.”

“Fools live poor to die rich.”

“Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the marrow of wit, and the very phrase of angels.”

“Sorrow can swim.”