Herbert Quotes

To weepe for joy is a kinde of Manna.

Too much taking heede is losse. [Too much taking heed is loss.]

True praise rootes and spreedes.

Truth and oyle are ever above. [Truth and oil are ever above.]

Two ill meales make the third a glutton.

Two sparrows on one Ear of Corn make an ill agreement.

Ty it well, and let it goe.

Valour that parlies is neare yeelding. [Valor that parleys is near yielding.]

Vertue and a Trade are the best portion for Children.

Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.

Vertue never growes old.

Vertue now is in herbs and stones and words onely.

Vnder water, famine; under snow, bread.

Waight and measure take away strife.

Warre and Physicke are governed by the eye.

Warre is deaths feast.

Water a farre off quencheth not fire.

Water trotted is as good as oates.

Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]

We are fooles one to another.

We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh till your hearts ake.

We cannot come to honour under Coverlet.

We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.

We must love, as looking one day to hate.

We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.

Wealth is like rheume, it falles on the weakest parts.

Wee know not who lives or dies.

Wee leave more to do when wee dye, then wee have done.

Weening is not measure.

Weight justly and sell dearely.

Welcome evill, if thou commest alone. [Welcome evil, if thou comest alone.]

Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne Carpenters (to make them crutches).

Were there no fooles, badd ware would not passe.

Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.

What one day gives us, another takes away from us. [What one day gives, another takes away from us.]

What your glasse telles you, will not be told by Councell.

Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned.

When a friend askes, there is no to morrow. [When a friend asks, there is no to-morrow.]

When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin.

When a man sleepes, his head is in his stomach.

When age is jocond it makes sport for death. [When age is jocund, it makes sport for death.]

When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot bee much. [When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot be much.]

When all sinnes grow old, coveteousnesse is young.

When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.

When God is made the master of a family, he disorders the disorderly.

When God will punish, hee will first take away the understanding.

When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]

When my house burnes, it's not good playing at Chesse.

When one is on horsebacke hee knowes all things.

When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet. [When the tree is fallen, all go with their hatchet.]