George Herbert Quotes

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A long tongue is a signe of a short hand.
[A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.]

George Herbert
The worst of law is, that one suit breedes twenty.
[The worst of law is that one suit breeds twenty.]

George Herbert
When a friend askes, there is no to morrow.
[When a friend asks, there is no to-morrow.]

George Herbert
He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.

George Herbert
He that would be well, needs not goe from his owne house.
[He that would be well needs not go from his own house.]

George Herbert
The best remedy against an ill man is much ground betweene both.
[The best remedy against an ill man is much ground between both.]

George Herbert
Hee that hath one hogge makes him fat, and hee that hath one son makes him a foole.

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Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.

George Herbert
Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is even in the grave, And thou must die.

George Herbert
Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

George Herbert
I envy no man's nightingale or spring;
Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme,
Who plainly say, My God, My King.

George Herbert
Hee that falles into the durt, the longer he stayes there, the fowler he is.

George Herbert
There is no man, though never so little, but sometimes he can hurt.

George Herbert
From a chollerick man withdraw a little; from him that saies nothing, for ever.
[From a choleric man withdraw a little; from him that says nothing, for ever.]

George Herbert
If the mother had not beene in the oven, shee had never sought her daughter there.

George Herbert
That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle and the distaffe.

George Herbert
Without favour none will know you, and with it you will not know your selfe.

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There's no such conquering weapon as the necessity of conquering.

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For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is incompossible.

George Herbert
Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne Carpenters (to make them crutches).

George Herbert
Take heed of a person marked, and a Widdow thrice married.
[Take heed of a person marked, and a widow thrice married.]

George Herbert
The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.

George Herbert
The escaped mouse ever feeles the taste of the bait.
[The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.]

George Herbert
A woman and a glasse are ever in danger.
[A woman and a glass are ever in danger.]

George Herbert
He that hath hornes in his bosom, let him not put them on his head.

George Herbert
When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet.
[When the tree is fallen, all go with their hatchet.]

George Herbert
The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve.

George Herbert
Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.
[Though a lie be well dressed, it is ever overcome.]

George Herbert
Play not for gain, but sport. Who plays for more
Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart;
Perhaps his wife's too, and whom she hath bore.

George Herbert
Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.

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