George Herbert Quotes

Who will sell the Cow, must say the word.

The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire.

Parsons are soules waggoners.

Much spends the traveller, more then the abider.

A fair day in winter is the mother of a storme.

Wee know not who lives or dies.

The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.

Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie.

There are three waies, the Vniversities, the Sea, the Court.

Advise none to marry or go to war.

Faire language grates not the tongue.

The Mill gets by going.

He that serves, must serve.

Every thing new is fine.

For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is incompossible.

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

Hee that workes after his owne manner, his head akes not at the matter.

Favour will as surely perish as life.

When war begins, then hell openeth.

Vertue now is in herbs and stones and words onely.

Sleepe without supping, and wake without owing.

To a gratefull man give mony when he askes.

To him that will, waies are not wanting.

At the games end we shall see who gaines.

The body is more drest then the soule.

Who spits against heaven, it falls in his face.

States have their conversions and periods as well as naturall bodies.

To bee beloved is above all bargaines.

Man Proposeth, God disposeth.

To play at Chesse when the house is on fire.

Hee that keepes his owne makes warre.

Pull downe your hatt on the winds side.

Let thy mind's sweetness have its operation upon thy body, clothes, and habitation.

He that burnes most shines most.

The tree that growes slowly, keepes it selfe for another.

If the mother had not beene in the oven, shee had never sought her daughter there.

If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart. If thou art guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction.

Hee that marries for wealth sells his liberty.

Sinnes are not knowne till they bee acted.

When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.

A woman conceales what shee knowes not.

If the husband be not at home, there is nobodie.

The shortest answer is doing.

We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.

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

Benefits please like flowers while they are fresh.

A garden must be looked unto and dressed as the body.

It's better to be head of a Lyzard, then the tayle of a Lyon.