Mr Herbert Quotes

#1. The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.

Charles Darwin

#2. In the future I see open fields for more important researches. Psychology will be securely based on the foundation already laid by Mr. Herbert Spencer, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by graduation.

Charles Darwin

#3. Mr. Herbert Demarest
Alexander Hamilton Jr. High
2236 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn NY
Dear Mr Demarest,
Then why don't you give him 'Withering Heights'? At least Heathcoat knew how to kick some ass.
Chas. Banks
3d Base

Steve Kluger

#4. Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart could have recovered greenness?

George Herbert

#5. Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.

George Herbert

#6. Without businesse debauchery.

George Herbert

#7. Sad? Nonsense! Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place." He glanced at the charts on the table. "And Arrakis is just another place.

Frank Herbert

#8. Citties are taken by the eares.

George Herbert

#9. All governments needed to remain under suspicion during their time of power including that of the Sisterhood itself. Trust no government! Not even mine!

Frank Herbert

#10. He that serves, must serve.

George Herbert

#11. The March sunne raises but dissolves not.

George Herbert

#12. A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.

A.P. Herbert

#13. The fatt man knoweth not, what the leane thinketh.

George Herbert

#14. Ah! Indeed but! But he consumes too much spice, eats it like candy. Look at his eyes! He might have come directly from the Arrakeen labor pool. Efficient, Piter, but he's still emotional and prone to passionate outbursts. Efficient, Piter, but he still can err.
-Baron Vladimir

Frank Herbert

#15. None is so wise, but the foole overtakes him.

George Herbert

#16. One moment of incompetence can be fatal.

Frank Herbert

#17. A little and good fills the trencher.

George Herbert

#18. If you are anxious, you can't learn. It's like dropping seeds on concrete. With a quiet mind, people take things in.

Herbert Benson

#19. We bribe the Guild with a monstrous payment in spice to keep our skies clear of satellites and such that none may spy what we do to the face of Arrakis. She

Frank Herbert

#20. deaf. Unruffled by Herbert Jemson's breach of allegiance, because he had not heard it, Mr. Stone rose and walked to the pulpit with Bible in hand. He opened it and said, "My text for today is taken from the twenty-first

Harper Lee

#21. The Mr. absent, and the house dead.

George Herbert

#22. This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called 'natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.

Herbert Spencer

#23. If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.

George Herbert

#24. You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap. there's an animal kind of trick. a human would remain in the trap endure the pain feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.

Frank Herbert

#25. He that lends, gives.

George Herbert

#26. Love makes one fitt for any work.

George Herbert

#27. The Unknown surrounds us at any given moment. That is where we seek knowledge.

Brian Herbert

#28. Your own emperor bestowed Arrakis on House Atreides. I am House Atreides. The

Frank Herbert

#29. Is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.

Frank Herbert

#30. Neither praise nor dispraise thy selfe, thy actins serve the turne.
[Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn.]

George Herbert

#31. Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

Frank Herbert

#32. When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

Herbert Hoover

#33. A penny spar'd is twice got.

George Herbert

#34. There are rich counsels in the trees.

Herbert P. Horne

#35. To use raw power is to make yourself infinitely vulnerable to greater powers.

Frank Herbert

#36. I had a great dislike to the annoyances entailed by baggage; and it was always with some feeling of elation that I cut myself free from everything but what I could carry about me. Like children, portmanteaus and trunks are hostages to fortune.

Herbert Spencer

#37. The terrain enforced its own rhythms.

Frank Herbert

#38. In 2007, several musicologists contacted me at about the same time, expressing interest in the work of the mysterious Muriel Herbert, a few of whose songs they had come across.

Claire Tomalin

#39. Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

Frank Herbert

#40. (Dune's Frank) Herbert made religion the inescapable instrument of cultural change.

Joseph Bottum

#41. It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.

Frank Herbert

#42. Who gives to all, denies all.

George Herbert