Quotes About George Herbert

#1. He that lends, gives.

George Herbert

#2. Love makes one fitt for any work.

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

#5. Nothing secure unlesse suspected.

George Herbert

#6. Who gives to all, denies all.

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

#9. Without businesse debauchery.

George Herbert

#10. Citties are taken by the eares.

George Herbert

#11. He that serves, must serve.

George Herbert

#12. The March sunne raises but dissolves not.

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

#15. A little and good fills the trencher.

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

#20. Goods are theirs that enjoy them.

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

#22. He that endures is not overcome.

George Herbert

#23. History is always the interpretation of the present

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#24. Everyone thinks his sack heaviest.

George Herbert

#25. Princes are venison in Heaven.

George Herbert

#26. Every path hath a puddle.

George Herbert

#27. 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

#28. An ill deede cannot bring honour.

George Herbert

#29. God sees hearts as we see faces.

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

#32. Amongst good men two men suffice.

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

#39. Favour will as surely perish as life.

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

#41. Good land, evill way.

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. 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

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

#53. He that marries late, marries ill.

George Herbert

#54. Everyone puts his fault on the Times.

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

#58. 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

#59. Aske much to have a little.

George Herbert

#60. Everyone is a master and servant.

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

#62. 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

#63. 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

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

#73. Farre shooting never kild bird.

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

#75. You cannot know wine by the barrell.

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

#80. 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

#81. Soft and faire goes farre.

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

#90. Bibles laid open, millions of surprises.

George Herbert

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

George Herbert

#92. The life of spies is to know, not bee known.

George Herbert

#93. A noble plant suites not with a stubborne ground.

George Herbert

#94. Although the sun shine, leave not thy cloake at home.

George Herbert

#95. Hee that makes himself a sheep, shall be eat by the wolfe.

George Herbert

#96. Ther's no great banquet but some fares ill.

George Herbert

#97. Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg'd, make thy accounts agree.

George Herbert

#98. Forbeare not sowing because of birds.

George Herbert

#99. A beane in liberty is better then a comfit in prison.

George Herbert

#100. A curst Cow hath short hornes.
[A curst cow has short horns.]

George Herbert