Herbert Quotes

When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.

But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

Thank God she doesn't have to be confirmed by the Senate.(on the birth of his granddaughter)

Honour and profit lie not in one sacke. [Honour and profit lie not in one sack.]

Hee that labours and thrives spins gold.

Honour without profit is a ring on the finger.

Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers.

I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning.

I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heire. [I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heir.]

If all fooles had babies, wee should want fuell.

While it [tolerance] is more or less quietly and constitutionally withdrawn from the opposition, it is made compulsory behavior with respect to established policies.

If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]

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

If great men would have care of little ones, both would last long.

That which is cannot be true.

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

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

If the old dog barke he gives counsell. [If the old dog barks, he gives counsel.]

If the wise erred not, it would goe hard with fooles. [If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.]

If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

If thou thy selfe canst doe it, attend no others helpe or hand.

If you could runne, as you drinke, you might catch a hare.

If you loose your time, you cannot get mony nor gaine.

If you must flie, flie well.

If you would bee at ease, all the world is not.

Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches.

Ill natures, the more you aske them, the more they stick.

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

Ill vessels seldome miscarry.

In a good house all is quickly ready.

In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.

In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.

Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past.

In a retreat the lame are formost. [In a retreat the lame are foremost.]

In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.

In doing we learne. [In doing we learn.]

In every countrey the sun rises in the morning. [In every country the sun rises in the morning.]

In every country dogges bite.

In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.

It's not good fishing before the net.

This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression.

Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.

The present stage redefines the possibilities of man and nature in accordance with the new means available for their realization.

If they are sufficiently complete to live, they do live, and it is well they should live. If they are not sufficiently complete to live, they die, and it is best they should die.

Justice pleaseth few in their owne house. [Justice pleases few in their own house.]

Jest not with the eye or with Religion.

It's good tying the sack before it be full.

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

It is not my purpose as a poet to condemn war (or to be exact, modern warfare). I only wish to present the universal aspects of a particular event.

Knowledge is no burden.