Herbert Quotes

Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.

Every one fastens where there is gaine.

Every one hath a foole in his sleeve.

Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning.

Every one is witty for his owne purpose.

Every one stretcheth his legges according to his coverlet. [Every one stretches his legs according to his coverlet.]

Every one thinkes his sacke heaviest.

Every thing is of use to a houskeeper.

Everyone is a master and servant.

Evils have their comfort, good none can support.

Faire is not faire, but that which pleaseth.

Faire language grates not the tongue.

Faire words makes mee looke to my purse.

Farre shooting never kild bird.

Favour will as surely perish as life.

Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner.

Feare keepes the garden better then the gardiner.

Feare, the Bedle of the Law.

Feares are divided in the midst.

Flies are busiest about leane horses.

Good service is a great inchantment.

Good swimmers at length are drowned.

Goods are theirs that enjoy them.

Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.

Great almes-giving lessens no mans living.

Great businesses turne on a little pinne.

Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers.

Great paines quickly find ease.

Great strokes make not sweete musick.

Great trees are good for nothing but shade.

Greene wood makes a hott fire.

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

Happie is hee that chastens himselfe.

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

Harken to reason or shee will bee heard.

Hast comes not alone.

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

He cannot be vertuous that is not rigorous.

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

He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.

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

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

He is onely bright that shines by himselfe.

He lives unsafely, that lookes too neere on things.

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

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

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

Least at thine own things laugh.

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

The fish adores the bait.