George Herbert Quotes

Cities seldome change Religion only.

The good mother sayes not, Will you? but gives.

An Idle youth, a needy Age.

Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose.

Hee that blowes in the dust fills his eyes with it.

Quick beleevers neede broad shoulders.

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

Old Camels carry young Camels skins to the Market.

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.

Princes are venison in Heaven.

All griefes with bread are lesse.

Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice.

An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore.

No love is foule, nor prison fair.

Every path hath a puddle.

The March sunne raises but dissolves not.

Curtesie on one side only lasts not long.

Neither bribe nor loose thy right.

He that hath lands hath quarrells.

A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

As the yeere is, your pot must seeth.

Fooles bite one another, but wise-men agree together.

The Philosophy of Princes is to dive into the Secrets of men, leaving the secrets of nature to those that have spare time.

Where there is no honour, there is no griefe.

He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.

Science stands, a too competant servant, behind her wrangling underbred masters, holding out resources, devices, and remedies they are too stupid to use. ... And on its material side, a modern Utopia must needs present these gifts as taken.

Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, / The bridal of the earth and sky.

Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.

A good heart cannot lye

One enemy is too much.

It's an ill aire where wee gaine nothing.

This world is nothing except it tend to another.

Hee that repaires not a part, builds all.

Though God take the sunne out of the Heaven, yet we must have patience.

If you loose your time, you cannot get mony nor gaine.

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

He that hath hornes in his bosom, let him not put them on his head.

For washing his hands, none sels his lands.

Mention not a halter in the house of him that was hanged.

A snow yeare, a rich yeare.

Marry your daughters betimes, lest they marry themselves.

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

Building is a sweet impoverishing.

Doe what thou oughtest, and come what come can.

Heresie is the school of pride.

To buy deare is not bounty.

The healthfull man can give counsell to the sick.