George Herbert Quotes

Thursday come, and the week's gone.

Never was a miser a brave soul.

Good horses make short miles.

Gifts enter every where without a wimble.

In a long journey straw waighs.

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

By all means use sometimes to be alone.

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.

If the braine sowes not corne, it plants thistles.

A sad, wise valor is the brave complexion.

If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.

Mend your clothes and you may hold out this year.

A married man turns his staffe into a stake.

You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth.

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

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

There is great force hidden in a sweet command.

Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him.

A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.

The bird loves her nest.

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

The resolved mind hath no cares.

Hee that goes barefoot, must not plant thornes.

Give me simplicity, that I may live, So live and like, that I may know Thy ways, Know them and practise them: then shall I give For this poor wreath, give Thee a crown of praise.

The Royall Crowne cures not the head-ach. [The Royal Crown cures not the headache.]

Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.

Hee that hath one hogge makes him fat, and hee that hath one son makes him a foole.

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love, or life.

God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.

No day so clear but hath dark clouds.

Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.

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

I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]

When prayers are done, my Lady is ready.

Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance.

With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.

He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

A great ship asks deep water.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world.

He hath no leisure who useth it not.

Hee that is a master must serve (another).

A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.

Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]

Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where, And when, and how thy business may be done. Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller, Though he alights sometimes still goeth on.

Good and quickly seldom meet.

A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two. [A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two.