George Herbert Quotes

The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.

Ready mony is a ready Medicine.

Never was a miser a brave soul.

Feare nothing but sinne.

The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not.

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

The horse that drawes after him his halter, is not altogether escaped.

Whether shall the Oxe goe, where he shall not labour?

Vertue never growes old.

Fear kills more than disease.

Spies are the ears and eyes of Princes.

Take heed of a step-mother; the very name of her sufficeth.

Every mile is two in winter

Death keepes no Calender.

You cannot hide an eele in a sacke.

Step by step the ladder is ascended.

A trade is better then service.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Tis easier to build two chimneys, then to maintaine one.

He that steals an egg will steal an ox.

Storms make oaks take deeper root.

We are fooles one to another.

A pittifull mother makes a scald head.

The constancy of the benefit of the yeere in their seasons argues a Deity.

Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.

Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.

Fooles give to please all but their owne.

Service without reward is punishment.

Little journeys and good cost bring safe home.

Hee is a foole that thinks not that another thinks.

He hath great neede of a foole, that plaies the foole himselfe.

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

Keep good company, and you shall be of the number.

Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne Carpenters (to make them crutches).

Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest.

Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.

The God of love my shepherd is, And he that doth me feed: While he is mine, and I am his, What can I want or need?

Thursday come, and the week's gone.

The dark grave, which knows all secrets, can alone reclaim the fatal doubt once cast on a woman's name.

When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.

The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.

Be not too presumptuously sure in any business; for things of this world depend on such a train of unseen chances that if it were in man's hands to set the tables, still he would not be certain to win the game.

Three women make a market.

To live peaceably with all breedes good blood.

A little and good fills the trencher.

Serve a noble disposition, though poore, the time comes that hee will repay thee.

When God is made the master of a family, he disorders the disorderly.

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