George Herbert Quotes

“874. None knows the weight of another's burthen.”

“837. Words are women, deedes are men.”

“383. The horse thinkes one thing, and he that sadles him another.”

“520. Living well is the best revenge.”

“292. The best mirrour is an old friend.”

“Man is God's image; but a poor man is
Christ's stamp to boot: both images regard.”

“Teach me, my God and King,
In all things thee to see
And what I do in any thing,
To do it as for thee..”

“The worst speak something good; if all want sense,
God takes a text, and preacheth Pa-ti-ence.”

“No sooner is a temple built to God, but the Devil builds a chapel hard by.”

“1. Man proposeth, God disposeth.”

“477. A poore beauty finds more lovers than husbands.”

“421. He that hath a head of waxe must not walke in the sunne.”

“A verse may finde him, who a sermon flies
And turns delight into a sacrifice”

“[ Woe be to him that reads but one book. ]”

“Storms make oaks take deeper root.”

“911. Life is halfe spent before we know what it is.”

“The shortest answer is doing.”

“He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.”

“Like summer friends,
Flies of estate and sunneshine.”

“[ The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd. ]”

“848. He that endures is not overcome.”

“710. Three can hold their peace if two be away.”

“511. Pension never inriched young man.”

“406. He that blames would buy.”

“334. When you are an anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.”

“104. Leave jesting while it pleaseth, lest it turne to earnest.”

“816. Women laugh when they can and weepe when they will.”

“It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle.”

“460. The resolved minde hath no cares.”

“916. The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many.”

“319. Little sticks kindle the fire, great ones put it out.”

“[ Your thoughts close and your countenance loose. ]”

“Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?”

“67. Never had ill workman good tooles.”

“294. A man's discontent is his worst evill.”

“966. With customes wee live well, but lawes undoe us.”

“897. There are more physitians in health then drunkards.”

“557. The offender never pardons.”

“222. One graine fills not a sacke, but helpes his fellowes.”

“508. He that tells a secret is another's servant.”

“763. Better speake truth rudely then lye covertly.”

“376. Little pitchers have wide eares.”

“The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords
If when the soul unto the lines accords.”

“497. Little wealth, little care.”

“155. Good words are worth much, and cost little.”

“215. Into a mouth shut flies flie not.”

“200. The hole calls the thiefe.”

“138. Well may hee smell fire whose gowne burnes.”

“248. Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.”

“621. Speake fitly, or be silent wisely.”

“[ A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb. ]”

“Be useful where thou livest.”

“743. God's mill grinds slow but sure.”

“307. Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.”

“A servant with this clause
Makes drudgery divine:
Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws,
Makes that and th' action fine.”

“[ Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned. ]”

“720. Be what thou wouldst seem to be.”

“339. Hee that lies with the dogs riseth with fleas.”

“676. A little wind kindles, much puts out the fire.”

“719. One sword keepes another in the sheath.”

“193. If the old dog barke he gives counsell.”