Herbert Quotes

The absent partie is still faultie.

The back-doore robs the house.

The ballance distinguisheth not betweene gold and lead.

The beast that goes alwaies never wants blowes.

The best of the sport is to doe the deede, and say nothing.

The bit that one eates, no friend makes.

The body is more drest then the soule.

The charges of building and making of gardens are unknowne.

The chiefe boxe of health is time.

The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire.

The cholerick man never wants woe.

The Chollerick drinkes, the Melancholick eats, the Flegmatick sleepes.

The comforters head never akes.

The command of custome is great.

The constancy of the benefit of the yeere in their seasons argues a Deity.

The corne hides it self in the snow, as an old man in furrs.

The crow bewailes the sheepe, and then eates it.

The dainties of the great are the teares of the poore.

The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon.

The Devill is not alwaies at one doore.

The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.

The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.

The dog that licks ashes, trust not with meale. [The dog that licks ashes trust not with meal.]

The effect speakes, the tongue needes not. [The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.]

The escaped mouse ever feeles the taste of the bait. [The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.]

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

The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.

The eye is bigger then the belly. [The eye is bigger than the belly.]

The eye will have his part.

The fault is as great as hee that is faulty.

The fault of the horse is put on the saddle.

The faulty stands on his guard.

The first dish pleaseth all.

The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.

The foole askes much, but hee is more foole that grants it.

The Fox knowes much, but more he that catcheth him.

The gentle Hawke halfe mans her selfe.

The Germans wit is in his fingers.

The good mother sayes not, Will you? but gives.

The gowne is his that we ares it, and the world his that enjoyes it.

The great put the little on the hooke.

The great would have none great and the little all little.

The greatest step is that out of doores. [The greatest step is that out of doors.]

The groundsell speakes not save what it heard at the hinges.

The hearts letter is read in the eyes.

The higher the Ape goes, the more he shewes his taile. [The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.]

The hole calls the thiefe. [The hole calls the thief.]

The horse that drawes after him his halter, is not altogether escaped.

The house is a fine house, when good folks are within.

The House shewes the owner.