Famous Quotes / Sir John Denham
8 Quotations by Sir John Denham
- 1. Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
- 2. Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
- 3. Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
- 4. Search not to find things too deeply hid; nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.
- 5. Search not to find things too deeply hid; nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.
- 6. We are never like angels till our passion dies.
- 7. We may our ends by our beginnings know.
- 8. Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.