Herbert Quotes

Good is god, but better carries it.

Good is the mora that makes all sure.

Good is to bee sought out, and evill attended.

Good land, evill way.

Good newes may bee told at any time, but ill in the morning.

Never was strumpet faire.

No Alchymy to saving.

No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there. [No churchyard is so handsome that a man would desire straight to be buried there.]

No hair so small but hath his shadow.

No love is foule, nor prison fair.

No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.

No tye can oblige the perfidious. [No tie can oblige the perfidious.]

Noble houskeepers neede no dores.

None is borne Master.

None is offended but by himselfe.

None is so wise, but the foole overtakes him.

None saies his Garner is full.

Not a long day, but a good heart rids worke.

Nothing dries sooner then a teare.

Nothing is to be presumed on, or despaired of.

Nothing lasts but the Church.

Nothing secure unlesse suspected.

Of a new Prince, new bondage.

Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig's tail you can never make a good shaft.]

Of faire things, the Autumne is faire.

The most consummately beautiful thing in the universe is the fashioned life of a good person.

I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

Would you reach the infinite? Then enter into finite things, working out all that they contain.

As never before does the keeping of our economic machine in tune depend upon wise policies in the administrative side of the government.

I dont like Jews. Or colored folk. Or natives, now that you mention it...I bet you like Catholics. Cant stand them either. Nor women, Fabians, Socialists, homosexuals, Asians, or British.

I always talk about my ambition with music, and it's to sort of seduce people into listening to sounds they wouldn't normally listen to or want to hear.

You always come back to Duke Ellington - he's kind of like the thread that holds everything together from the big band descending to lots of jazz, actually.

In modern studios, we're so used to becoming little dictators; you're used to the fascism of having complete control over every element.

Often people try and just consider music as music, in a musical context. People seem to forget that music is not just audio material - it's also the artwork, the packaging it comes in.

I think people are complacent about sound, because we're so limited by the textures and timbres we hear in music, but in our everyday life we hear the most incredible things.

I think rhythm is, when you talk about rhythmic sensibility, quite perceptive in that I like to have at least one thing that is at least common or familiar to the audience.

I try to be original in every piece of music I do, and of course I probably fail every time.

Chaos is hateful. That indeterminate nature of war brings a really unsettling atmosphere to life.

Pigs are very intelligent. They're very misunderstood. Yet they're sort of man's unofficial best friend.

As far as I could discover, the notion that a play could succeed without any further help from the actor than a simple impersonation of his part never occurred to Tree.

It depends on each and every one of me.

When I pass my name in such large letters I blush, but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.

Sirs, I have tested your machine. It adds a new terror to life and makes death a long-felt want.

My poor fellow, why not carry a watch?

A whipper-snapper of criticism who quoted dead languages to hide his ignorance of life.

In the last resort, sheer insight is the greatest asset of all.

O MY WIFE-who made the writing of my previous book a pleasure and writing of the present one a necessity.

If it be true that democracy is based upon the assumption that every man shall serve his fellow man, the organization of democracy should be gradually adapted to that assumption.

The essential nature of a democracy compels it to insist that individual power of all kinds, political, economic, or intellectual, shall not be perversely and irresponsibly exercised.

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.