George Herbert Quotes

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“[ Hee that makes himself a sheep shall be eat by the wolfe. ]”

“678. More have repented speech then silence.”

“[ Old men go to death; death comes to young men. ]”

“Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes
Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.”

“[ Silke doth quench the fire in the kitchin. ]”

“475. Fine words dresse ill deedes.”

“Man is one world, and hath
Another to attend him.”

“86. He that lives well is learned enough.”

“465. In the kingdome of blind men the one-ey'd is king.”

“942. Every mile is two in winter.”

“123. To a boyling pot flies come not.”

“[ There is a remedy for everything, could men find it. ]”

“To a close-shorn sheep God gives wind by measure.”

“583. Thursday come and the week's gone.”

“296. The child saies nothing but what it heard by the fire.”

“158. The eye and religion can beare no jesting.”

“61. Ill ware is never cheape.”

“375. All things have their place, knew wee how to place them.”

“[ When war begins then hell openeth. ]”

“[ Some had rather lose their friend then their jest. ]”

“89. All truths are not to be told.”

“77. When a dog is a-drowning every one offers him drink.”

“213. Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him.”

“574. A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.”

“Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking
Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer.”

“My meaning (dear Mother) is in these sonnets, to declare my resolution to be, that my poor abilities in poetry, shall be all and ever consecrated to God's glory.”

“Chase brave employment with a naked sword
Throughout the world.”

“By no means run in debt: take thine own measure.
Who cannot live on twenty pound a year,
Cannot on forty.”

“830. He thinkes not well that thinkes not againe.”

“15. Light burthens long borne growe heavie.”

“737. The best smell is bread, the best savour salt, the best love that of children.”

“1010. An oath that is not to bee made is not to be kept.”

“971. Hee that learnes a trade hath a purchase made.”

“322. Although the sun shine, leave not thy cloake at home.”

“[ Much money makes a countrey poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing. ]”

“422. He that hath love in his brest hath spurres in his sides.”

“759. Give not S. Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.”

“13. The scalded dog feares cold water.”

“449. Trust not one night's ice.”

“166. Of all smells, bread; of all tasts, salt.”

“[ There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it. ]”

“744. Every one thinkes his sacke heaviest.”

“153. The mill cannot grind with water that's past.”

“317. Be not a baker if your head be of butter.”

“345. He that is not handsome at twenty, nor strong at thirty, nor rich at forty, nor wise at fifty, will never bee handsome, strong, rich, or wise.”

“601. The fatt man knoweth not what the leane thinketh.”

“891. Hee hath no leisure who useth it not.”

“753. By doing nothing we learne to do ill.”

“[ An old dog barks not in vain. ]”