George Herbert Quotes

Hee that is a master must serve (another).

A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast.

The science of the modern school ... is in effect ... the acquisition of imperfectly analyzed misstatements about entrails, elements, and electricity.

Destiny is always dark.

Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender heart so long, Till it get wing, and flie away with Thee.

In solitude, be a multitude to thyself.

Trust not one night's ice.

He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.

If all fooles wore white Caps, wee should seeme a flock of geese.

Corn is cleaned with wind, and the Soul with chastening

Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze. [Spectacles are death's arquebuse.]

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

Service without reward is punishment.

Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.

Who goes to bed, and doth not pray, Maketh two nights to every day!

Fine dressing is a foule house swept before the doores.

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.

Better a bare foote then none.

Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes.

The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.

Hee that goes to bed thirsty riseth healthy.

Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?

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

An Idle youth, a needy Age.

Pardons and pleasantnesse are great revenges of slanders.

One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.

In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.

Send not a Catt for Lard.

Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.

Humble Hearts have humble desires.

Beate the dog before the Lyon.

A City that parlies is half gotten. [A city that parleys is half gotten.]

In every Art it is good to have a master. [In every art it is good to have a master.]

Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand.

To the counsel of fools a wooden bell.

Every thing new is fine.

A sleepy master makes his servant a Lowt.

If yee would know a knave, give him a staffe.

For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.

He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.

Life without a friend is death without a witnesse. [Life without a friend is death without a witness.]

Would you know what money is, go borrow some.

Play not for gain, but sport. Who plays for more Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart; Perhaps his wife's too, and whom she hath bore.

He quits his place well, that leaves his friend there.

It is better to have wings then hornes.

Feare nothing but sinne.

Gold opens all locks, no lock will hold against the power of gold.

If gold knew what gold is, gold would get gold I wis.

By doing nothing we learne to do ill.