George Herbert Quotes

A disarmed peace is weake.

A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid. [A diligent scholar, and the master's paid.]

A dead Bee maketh no Hony.

A curst Cow hath short hornes. [A curst cow has short horns.]

A child correct behind and not before.

A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.

A blustering night, a faire day. [A blustering night, a fair day.]

A bad dog never sees the Wolfe.

The longest Day hath an Eueninge.

Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?

The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.

Much money makes a Countrey poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.

Give not S. Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing. [Give not Saint Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.]

In cloths cheap handsomeness, doth bear the bell.

Ill ware is never cheape. [Ill ware is never cheap.]

Beauty drawes more then oxen.

The fish adores the bait.

Poverty is no sinne. [Poverty is no sin.]

Least at thine own things laugh.

The Jewes spend at Easter, the Moors at marriages, the Christians in sutes.

He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.

He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]

He lives unsafely, that lookes too neere on things.

He is onely bright that shines by himselfe.

He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.

He hath great neede of a foole, that plaies the foole himselfe.

He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.

He carries well, to whom it waighes not. [He carries well, to whomit weighs not.]

He cannot be vertuous that is not rigorous.

He can give little to his servant, that lickes his knife. [He can give little to his servant that licks his knife.]

Hast comes not alone.

Harken to reason or shee will bee heard.

Happier are the hands compast with yron, then a heart with thoughts.

Happie is hee that chastens himselfe.

Had you the world on your Chesse-bord, you could not fill all to your mind.

Greene wood makes a hott fire.

Great trees are good for nothing but shade.

Great strokes make not sweete musick.

Great paines quickly find ease.

Better a snotty child, then his nose wip'd off.

Better to be blinde, then to see ill.

Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]

Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.

Better spare to have of thine own, then aske of other men. [Better spare to have of thine own than ask of other men.]

Better good afarre off, then evill at hand. [Better good afar than evil at hand.]

Better be a foole then a knave. [Better be a fool than a knave.]

Bee not idle and you shall not bee longing.

Be what thou wouldst seeme to be.

Bee not a Baker, if your head be of butter.

Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought to be interposed.