George Herbert Quotes

He that feares death lives not.

Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers.

Knowledge is folly unless grace guide it.

Cover your selfe with your shield, and care not for cryes.

But who does hawk at eagles with a dove?

Though the Fox run, the chicken hath wings.

The cholerick man never wants woe.

Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.

In every country dogges bite.

A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.

God comes to see without a bell.

Hee that will deceive the fox, must rise betimes.

Take heede of an oxe before, of an horse behind, of a monke on all sides.

An oath that is not to bee made is not to be kept.

God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage.

A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.

Good is the mora that makes all sure.

It's a wicked thing to make a dearth ones garner.

The soule needs few things, the body many.

He that will enter into Paradise, must have a good key.

We must love, as looking one day to hate.

Never was strumpet faire.

The rage of a wild boar is able to spoil more then one wood.

Castles are Forrests of stones.

They that know one another salute a farre off.

Better a snotty child, then his nose wip'd off.

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

But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and Aristotle, has no more essential permanence as a final expression of the human mind, than the Scottish Longer Catechism.

Hee that gives thee a bone, would not have thee die.

He that hath no good trade, it is to his losse.

Every day brings his bread with it.

Love bade me welcome, but my soul drew back.

Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned.

A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose.

Lend only what you can afford to lose.

Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.

Forbeare not sowing because of birds.

Hee that demands misseth not, unlesse his demands be foolish.

When my house burnes, it's not good playing at Chesse.

Presents of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers.

Presse a stick, and it seemes a youth.

He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.

One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues.

He that knows nothing doubts nothing.

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

True praise rootes and spreedes.

Hee that learnes a trade hath a purchase made.

Hee goes not out of his way, that goes to a good Inne.