George Herbert Quotes

They favour learning whose actions are worthy of a learned pen.

If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season.

He that hopes not for good, feares not evill.

Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.

The fish adores the bait.

Divine ashes are better then earthly meale.

Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.

Punishment is lame, but it comes.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulder, sees further of the two.

Love makes all hard hearts gentle.

One sound blow will serve to undo us all.

Good swimmers at length are drowned.

Take heed of the wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the people.

Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest.

A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.

On a good bargain think twice.

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.

Noble houskeepers neede no dores.

Gifts enter every where without a wimble.

To weepe for joy is a kinde of Manna.

The house shows the owner.

There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.

An old dog barks not in vain.

Hee that hath patience hath fatt thrushes for a farthing.

Evils have their comfort, good none can support.

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

One mouth doth nothing without another.

A snow year, a rich year.

There needs a long time to know the worlds pulse.

Such a Saint, such an offering.

Grasp not at much, for fear thou losest all.

One slumber finds another.

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hee that hath charge of soules transports them not in bundles.

Weight justly and sell dearely.

They that hold the greatest farmes, pay the least rent (applyed to rich men that are unthankful to God).

Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.

The thread breakes, where it is weakest.

Criticks are like brushers of Noblemens cloaths.

Knowledge is but folly unless it is guided by grace.

The evening praises the day, and the morning a frost.

Great trees are good for nothing but shade.

An upbraided morsell never choaked any.

An idle head is a boxe for the winde.

When a man sleepes, his head is in his stomach.

He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.

To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.

The bit that one eates, no friend makes.