Quotes About George Herbert

#1. If you're a friend or a relative of George Herbert Walker Bush, Prez 41, or George W. Bush, Prez 43, or any other Bushes, then you know an 18-hole round of golf shouldn't take more than three hours out of your day - there are other important things to do.

Dan Jenkins

#2. Reversed Thunder," as the poet George Herbert put it. "Reversed Thunder" -- the coming of judgement in response to the cry, "How long, O Lord?

Darrell Johnson

#3. He who cannot forgive another breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself. GEORGE HERBERT

Philip Yancey

#4. The president I came to know best was George Herbert Walker Bush. No. 41 in your program, No. 1 on your list of fast-playing golfers.

Dan Jenkins

#5. Sidney remembered how strikingly original the poem was. For George Herbert, the time we spend on earth is not all too brief and transient but too long: because it detains human beings from a life outside time and with God.

James Runcie

#6. Times have changed since George Herbert ... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a priest remains an inspiration and model for all priests.

Arthur Middleton

#7. George Herbert Walker Bush. He was a pretty-pretty great President and anything but.

Mitt Romney

#8. Former US president, drug baron and pedophile, George Herbert Walker Bush, incidentally, is mentioned more than any other person in my experience in relation to shape-shifting.

David Icke

#9. President George Herbert Walker Bush ran as a strong conservative, ran to continue the third term of Ronald Reagan, continue the Ronald Reagan revolution. Then he raised taxes and in '92 ran as an establishment moderate - same candidate, two very different campaigns.

Ted Cruz

#10. George Herbert was wrong. Living well isn't the best revenge; loving well is.

Stephen King

#11. He that lends, gives.

George Herbert

#12. Love makes one fitt for any work.

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

#15. Nothing secure unlesse suspected.

George Herbert

#16. Who gives to all, denies all.

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

#19. Without businesse debauchery.

George Herbert

#20. Citties are taken by the eares.

George Herbert

#21. He that serves, must serve.

George Herbert

#22. The March sunne raises but dissolves not.

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

#25. A little and good fills the trencher.

George Herbert

#26. The perswasion of the fortunate swaies the doubtfull.

George Herbert

#27. For if I wimp my wing on thine. Affliction shall advance the flight in me.

George Herbert

#28. Marry your daughters betimes, lest they marry themselves.

George Herbert

#29. He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.

George Herbert

#30. Goods are theirs that enjoy them.

George Herbert

#31. By doing nothing we learne to do ill.

George Herbert

#32. He that endures is not overcome.

George Herbert

#33. History is always the interpretation of the present

George Herbert Mead

#34. Everyone thinks his sack heaviest.

George Herbert

#35. Princes are venison in Heaven.

George Herbert

#36. Every path hath a puddle.

George Herbert

#37. When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot bee much.
[When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot be much.]

George Herbert

#38. An ill deede cannot bring honour.

George Herbert

#39. God sees hearts as we see faces.

George Herbert

#40. Where there is no honour, there is no griefe.

George Herbert

#41. The wind in ones face makes one wise.

George Herbert

#42. Amongst good men two men suffice.

George Herbert

#43. An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.

George Herbert

#44. To whirle the eyes too much shewes a Kites braine.

George Herbert

#45. Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.

George Herbert

#46. If you could runne, as you drinke, you might catch a hare.

George Herbert

#47. In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle.
[In the house of the fiddler all fiddle.]

George Herbert

#48. The yeare doth nothing else but open and shut.

George Herbert

#49. Favour will as surely perish as life.

George Herbert

#50. He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.

George Herbert

#51. Good land, evill way.

George Herbert

#52. Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing.

George Herbert

#53. You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

George Herbert

#54. There were no ill language, if it were not ill taken.

George Herbert

#55. Hee that bewailes himselfe hath the cure in his hands.

George Herbert

#56. If that thy fame with ev'ry toy be pos'd, 'Tis a thin web, which poysonous fancies make; But the great souldier's honour was compos'd Of thicker stuf, which would endure a shake. Wisdom picks friends; civility plays the rest; A toy shunn'd cleanly passeth with the best.

George Herbert

#57. Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe,
Whence cam'st thou, that thou art so fresh and fine?
I know thy parentage is base and low:
Man found thee poor and dirty in a mine.

George Herbert

#58. Avoid,Profaneness; come not here: Nothing but holy, pure, and clear, Or that which groaneth to be so, May at his peril further go.

George Herbert

#59. I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning.

George Herbert

#60. The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts.
[The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]

George Herbert

#61. He lives unsafely, that lookes too neere on things.

George Herbert

#62. Who will sell the Cow, must say the word.

George Herbert

#63. He that marries late, marries ill.

George Herbert

#64. Everyone puts his fault on the Times.

George Herbert

#65. Honor and profit lie not all in one sack.

George Herbert

#66. He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.

George Herbert

#67. Harken to reason or shee will bee heard.

George Herbert

#68. Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him.
[Before you make a friend, eat a bushel of salt with him.]

George Herbert

#69. Aske much to have a little.

George Herbert

#70. Everyone is a master and servant.

George Herbert

#71. A rugged stone growes smooth from hand to hand.

George Herbert

#72. Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.

George Herbert Mead

#73. Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.

George Herbert

#74. Great trees are good for nothing but shade.

George Herbert

#75. Fortune to one is Mother, to another is Step-mother.

George Herbert

#76. Who hath a Wolfe for his mate, needes a Dog for his man.

George Herbert

#77. A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb.

George Herbert

#78. Who doth his owne businesse, foules not his hands.

George Herbert

#79. He begins to die, that quits his desires.

George Herbert

#80. While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines.
[While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]

George Herbert

#81. Hee that goes to bed thirsty riseth healthy.

George Herbert

#82. Farre shooting never kild bird.

George Herbert

#83. He that looseth is Marchant as well as he that gaines.

George Herbert

#84. You cannot know wine by the barrell.

George Herbert

#85. He that hath time and looks for better time, time comes that he repents himself of time.

George Herbert

#86. In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.

George Herbert Mead

#87. The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon.

George Herbert

#88. Those that God loves, do not live long.

George Herbert

#89. Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after.
[Who eats the king's goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]

George Herbert

#90. Soft and faire goes farre.

George Herbert

#91. In doing we learne.
[In doing we learn.]

George Herbert

#92. He that hath not the craft, let him shut up shop.

George Herbert

#93. Leave jesting whiles it pleaseth, lest it turne to earnest.

George Herbert

#94. He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.

George Herbert

#95. Vertue and a Trade are the best portion for Children.

George Herbert

#96. Who likes not the drinke, God deprives him of bread.

George Herbert

#97. If you would bee at ease, all the world is not.

George Herbert

#98. The book of books, the storehouse and magazine of life and comfort, the holy Scriptures.

George Herbert

#99. Bibles laid open, millions of surprises.

George Herbert

#100. If great men would have care of little ones, both would last long.

George Herbert