George Herbert Quotes

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“519. One enemy is too much.”

“82. Hee that goes barefoot must not plant thornes.”

“286. Goe not for every griefe to the physitian, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.”

“235. One hand washeth another, and both the face.”

“The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.”

“354. He that hath no ill fortune is troubled with good.”

“[ The war is not don so long as my enemy lives. ]”

“Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame,
When once it is within thee.”

“170. Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.”

“386. The buyer needes a hundred eyes, the seller not one.”

“305. He is not poore that hath little, but he that desireth much.”

“20. You cannot know wine by the barrell.”

“242. The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speakes.”

“300. He will burne his house to warme his hands.”

“473. Hope is the poor man's bread.”

“523. A fool may throw a stone into a well, which a hundred wise men cannot pull out.”

“79. Who is so deafe as he that will not heare?”

“136. Old wine and an old friend are good provisions.”

“Do well and right, and let the world sink.”

“149. Marry your sonne when you will, your daughter when you can.”

“677. Dry bread at home is better than rost meate abroad.”

“756. Every sin brings its punishment with it.”

“714. Comparisons are odious.”

“766. Better suffer ill than doe ill.”

“577. Folly growes without watering.”

“374. All things require skill but an appetite.”

“141. Love your neighbor, yet pull not downe your hedge.”

“105. Deceive not thy physitian, confessor, nor lawyer.”

“639. Emptie vessels sound most.”

“[ An idle youth, a needy age. ]”

“611. Time is the rider that breakes youth.”

“1023. An old cat sports not with her prey.”

“413. He that once deceives is ever suspected.”

“878. It's more paine to doe nothing then something.”

“940. The great would have none great, and the little all little.”

“370. Would you know what mony is, go borrow some.”

“429. Hee that hath one hogge makes him fat; and hee that hath one sonne makes him a foole.”

“391. To a crazy ship all windes are contrary.”

“Knowledge is folly unless grace guide it.”

“619. You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth.”

“682. One father is more than a hundred schoole-masters.”

“495. For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.”

“169. God heales, and the physitian hath the thankes.”

“Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,
A box where sweets compacted lie.”

“562. When the tree is fallen all goe with their hatchet.”

“778. He that doth what he should not shall feele what he would not.”

“901. Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.”

“314. The absent partie is still faultie.”

“Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime,
'T is angels' music.”