Top 100 Herrick Quotes
#1. The wonderful 17th Century poet, Robert Herrick, wrote a poem entitled, 'To Live Merrily and to Trust to Good Verses.' Easy to say, Robert Herrick; not always easy to do. But it's a good slogan, I think.
Robert Pinsky
#2. Two days prior to the Herrick operation I repaired a double cleft lip, resected a recurrent cancer of the mouth, corrected lop ears in a child, and closed a burn of the buttocks.
Joe Murray
#3. Herrick's cold rage was an enforceable warrant.
Suzanne Stroh
#4. An old poet, Robert Herrick, put it like this: " Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the sun; And, as a vapour or a drop of rain Once lost, can ne'er be found again.
Douglas Preston
#5. I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers; Of April, May, of June, and July flowers. I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes, Of bridegrooms, brides, and of their bridal cakes. - ROBERT HERRICK
Nora Roberts
#6. But the thing that ... that I touched ... " I cried. "It was furry! It-" I stopped short, taken with a shudder. "I know," said Herrick.
Margery Williams
#8. Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute.
Robert Herrick
#9. Some would know
Why I so
Long still doe tarry,
And ask why
Here that I
Live, and not marry?
Thus I those
Doe oppose;
What man would be here,
Slave to Thrall,
If at all
He could live free here?
Robert Herrick
#10. Rise and put on your foliage, and be seen
To come forth, like the springtime, fresh and green
Robert Herrick
#11. The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.
Robert Herrick
#12. Give house-room to the best; 'tis never known
Verture and pleasure both to dwell in one.
Robert Herrick
#14. He walks through the house of his past, hoping he'll find the right door, hoping he'll find the key.
Steven Herrick
#15. I work hard in the orchard, not for the money anymore, but for something I can't explain. Something worth more than money.
Steven Herrick
#16. Before man's fall the rose was born,St. Ambrose says, without the thorn;But for man's fault then was the thornWithout the fragrant rose-bud born; But ne'er the rose without the thorn.
Robert Herrick
#17. Drink wine, and live here blitheful while ye may;
The morrow's life too late is; live to-day.
Robert Herrick
#18. Her eyes the glowworm lend thee,
The shooting stars attend thee;
And the elves also,
Whose little eyes glow
Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee.
Robert Herrick
#19. Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
Robert Herrick
#20. Here a pretty Baby lies Sung asleep with Lullabies: Pray be silent, and not stirre The easie earth that covers her.
Robert Herrick
#21. That age is best which is the first
When youth and blood are warmer.
Robert Herrick
#22. Bid me to live, and I will live
Thy Protestant to be:
Or bid me love, and I will give
A loving heart to thee,
A heart as soft, a heart as kind,
A heart as sound and free
As in the whole world thou canst find,
That heart I'll give to thee.
Robert Herrick
#23. I rush to her side and touch her cold skin, hoping against hope for a pulse.
Steven Herrick
#24. Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.
Robert Herrick
#25. Life everywhere is in vast and endless variety. So it is with life eternal, that gift of God, constituting, in its length and breadth and height and depth, the reward of the righteous. The penitent, dying thief is not going into heaven like the triumphant, dying Paul.
Herrick Johnson
#27. Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.
Robert Herrick
#28. I dare not ask a kiss;
I dare not beg a smile;
Lest having that or this,
I might grow proud the while.
No, no, the utmost share
Of my desire shall be
Only to kiss that air,
That lately kissed thee.
Robert Herrick
#29. Thou art my life, my love, my heart,
The very eyes of me:
And hast command of every part
To live and die for thee.
Robert Herrick
#30. Take away health, wealth, and material success and all you have is each other. Maybe that's the place we should start.
Charles Herrick
#31. The Bible is the most thought suggesting book in the world. No other deals with such grand themes.
Herrick Johnson
#32. He did what he could, and that was more than enough.
Steven Herrick
#33. Buying, possessing, accumulating
this is not worldliness. But doing this in the love of it, with no love of God paramount
doing it so that thoughts of eternity and God are an intrusion
doing it so that one's spirit is secularized in the process; this is worldliness.
Robert Herrick
#34. Go to your banquet then, but use delight
So as to rise still with an appetite.
Robert Herrick
#35. I'm drinking away the exam results that don't take me anywhere.
Steven Herrick
#36. What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.
Robert Herrick
#37. Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.
Robert Herrick
#38. In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is
Robert Herrick
#40. Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty leg, Which is as white and hairless as an egg.
Robert Herrick
#41. Her body begs to be taken away and put into a warm bed with the sheets pulled high, even though nothing can help now.
Steven Herrick
#42. To fundamentally solve a problem, we must understand it's cause. In that I mean the chain of actions or circumstances that led to the problem
rather than only the immediate cause, which serves only to place blame.
Charlie Herrick
#43. Things are evermore sincere; / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.
Robert Herrick
#44. It is an active flame that fliesFirst to the babies in the eyes.
Robert Herrick
#45. Emma says after I was born I cried for days. She said I'd never shut up which is funny really because Dad says I never shut up now so maybe that's what happens, you get born and act the same your whole life.
Steven Herrick
#46. Tumble me down, and I will sit
Upon my ruines (smiling yet
Teare me to tatters; yet I'le be
Patient in my necessitie.
Laugh at my scraps of cloathes, and shun
Me, as a fear'd infection:
Yet scarre-crow-like I'le walk as one,
Neglecting thy derision.
Robert Herrick
#47. If God is a reality, and the soul is a reality, and you are an immortal being, what are you doing with your Bible shut?
Herrick Johnson
#49. Wandering from room to room discovering another side to the moon.
Steven Herrick
#51. I'm alone with the ghost of the swamp, somewhere near the weeping willows.
Steven Herrick
#52. Our life is short, and our days run, As fast away as does the sun
Robert Herrick
#53. The person lives twice who lives the first life well.
Robert Herrick
#55. But when I look at this farm I keep thinking it's not whether I have the guts to go but if I have the guts to stay.
Steven Herrick
#56. I'm glad she left me the kids. I'd be lost without them. Lost and bitter. With them here, I'm only bitter.
Steven Herrick
#57. Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside.
Steven Herrick
#58. You say to me-wards your affection's strong;
Pray love me little, so you love me long.
Robert Herrick
#59. Jack reads too many books. He thinks we're going to drive all year and have great adventures.
Steven Herrick
#60. Men are suspicious; prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.
Robert Herrick
#61. Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known; Kings seek their subjects' good: tyrants their own.
Robert Herrick
#62. Feed him ye must, whose food fills you.
And that this pleasure is like raine,
Not sent ye for to drowne your paine,
But for to make it spring againe.
Robert Herrick
#63. He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.
Robert Herrick
#64. I decide to make the most of the time we got left before she gets too big for this small town.
Steven Herrick
#65. An argument frequently used by believers [is] to force unbelievers to soften their terms by accepting their opponents' definition; "Atheist" means without a concept of God that is logically convincing, not with proof that God does not exist.
Jim Herrick
#66. I tell him everything as we walk. Maybe so he won't be disappointed being born into a place like this.
Steven Herrick
#67. Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand; Cold as paddocks though they be, Here I lift them up to Thee, for a benison to fall on our meat, and on us all. Amen.
Robert Herrick
#68. And I feel like a real Dad when I read to her at night. She won't sleep without one story, at least.
Steven Herrick
#69. For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee Which bore my Love away I'le seek him in your Bonnet brave, I'le seek him in your eyes.
Robert Herrick
#70. Roses at first were white, Till thy co'd not agree, Whether my Sapho's breast, Or they more white sho'd be.
Robert Herrick
#71. I've tried praying. It gives me comfort. But not as much as a cup of tea and a ginger nut biscuit.
Steven Herrick
#72. "Atheist" is quite clear in its meaning of "somebody without a belief in God." It is more complex in its usage since it has often been used to blacken anyone with the slightest doubt about the teachings of religion.
Jim Herrick
#73. And as this round (ring) is nowhere found to flaw, or else to sever. So let our love as endless prove and pure as gold forever.
Robert Herrick
#74. Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.
Robert Herrick
#75. Our great adventure ran out of petrol and stopped on this farm.
Steven Herrick
#76. In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, Without the sweet concurrence of the heart.
Robert Herrick
#77. Christ was either the grandest, guiltiest of impostors, by a marvelous and most subtle refinement of wickedness, or He was God manifest in the flesh.
Herrick Johnson
#78. Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend
Him, as He is, is labour without end.
Robert Herrick
#80. I walked out of his room sure I'd said the right thing maybe not as a father but as a Dad. I'd said the right thing, for once in my life.
Steven Herrick
#81. Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome When no force else can get the masterdom
Robert Herrick
#82. God doth not promise here to man that HeWill free him quickly from his misery;But in His own time, and when He thinks fit,Then He will give a happy end to it.
Robert Herrick
#83. Our present tears here, not our present laughter
Are but the handsells of our joys hereafter.
Robert Herrick
#84. Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace.
Robert Herrick
#85. I'd go off alone,
because you can't trust those who want to break the rules and you certainly can't trust those who make the rules so you do the only thing possible,
you avoid the rules.
Steven Herrick
#86. If little labour, little are our gains:
Man's fortunes are according to his pains.
Robert Herrick
#87. Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring In the spring, And wait upon her.
Robert Herrick
#88. It is not simply a theological treatise, a code of laws, a religious homily, but the Bible - the book - while the only book for the soul, the best book for the mind
Herrick Johnson
#89. Next, when I cast mine eyes and see
That brave vibration each way free,
O how that glittering taketh me!
Robert Herrick
#90. So, we skipped Annabel, and discussed condoms. I said I liked the orange ones, and we ended our talk in laughter.
Steven Herrick
#91. If Christianity were only a development, then Christ was not needed. If Christianity were only a scheme of morals, then the divine incarnation was a thing superfluous.
Herrick Johnson
#92. She taught me what's important, and what isn't. And I've never forgotten. And that's what mothers do, I say.
Steven Herrick
#93. Let wealth come in by comely thrift,
And not by any sordid shift;
'T is haste
Makes waste;
Extremes have still their fault.
Who gripes too hard the dry and slipp'ry sand,
Holds none at all, or little, in his hand.
Robert Herrick
#94. When words we want, love teacheth to indite;
And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.
Robert Herrick
#95. I'll write, because I'll give - You critics means to live; For should I not supply - The cause, the effect would die
Robert Herrick
#97. I'm thinking about babies. Emma's baby. Jack and my baby. Growing in my mind, if not in my womb.
Steven Herrick
#98. Where a person has no control, he will turn to violence; either to attain control, or as an alternative to it.
Charlie Herrick
#99. And I'm thinking as our bodies meet that I'll remember this forever, and i just hope it's for all the right reasons.
Steven Herrick
#100. When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head towards me, Guess I may, what I must be: First, I shall decline my head; Secondly, I shall be dead: Lastly, safely buryed.
Robert Herrick
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