George Herbert Quotations | Page 2

He that goeth farre hath many encounters.

He that gives me small gifts would have me live.

He that gives all before hee dies provides to suffer.

He that feares leaves, let him not goe into the wood.

He that feares death lives not.

He that doth what he should not, shall feele what he would not. [He that doth what he should not shall feel what he would not.]

He that dies without the company of good men puts not himselfe into a good way.

He that deales in the world needes foure seeves.

He that contemplates hath a day without night.

He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it. [He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it.]

He that cockers his child, provides for his enemie.

He that chastens one, chastens 20.

He that burnes most shines most.

A man well mounted is ever Cholerick.

A man is known to be mortal by two things, Sleep and Lust.

A Lyons skin is never cheape.

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

A little labour, much health.

A little given seasonably excuses a great gift.

A little and good fills the trencher.

A kinsman, a friend, or whom you intreate, take not to serve you, if you will be served neately.

A journying woman speakes much of all, and all of her.

A jade eates as much as a good horse.

A house and a woman sute excellently.

A horse stumbles that hath foure legges. [A horse stumbles that has four legs.]

A holy habit clenseth not a foule soule.

A hatt is not made for one shower.

A great dowry is a bed full of brables. [A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.]

A good prayer is master of anothers purse.

A good pay-master starts not at assurances.

A good Judge conceives quickly, judges slowly.

A good bargaine is a pick-purse. [A good bargain is a pick-purse.]

A gift much expected is paid, not given.

A full belly neither fights nor flies well.

A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.

A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]

A faire death honours the whole life.

A fair day in winter is the mother of a storme.

A drunkards purse is a bottle.

A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.

A disarmed peace is weake.

A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid. [A diligent scholar, and the master's paid.]

A dead Bee maketh no Hony.

A curst Cow hath short hornes. [A curst cow has short horns.]

A City that parlies is half gotten. [A city that parleys is half gotten.]

A child correct behind and not before.

A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.

A blustering night, a faire day. [A blustering night, a fair day.]

A beane in liberty is better then a comfit in prison.

A bad dog never sees the Wolfe.

Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king's goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]

The longest Day hath an Eueninge.

Couldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?

Get to live; Then live, and use it; else, it is not true That thou hast gotten. Surely use alone Makes money not a contemptible stone.

To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.

The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.

Much money makes a Countrey poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.

Money wants no followers.

Health without money is halfe an ague.

Man is all symmetrie, Full of proportions, one limbe to another, And all to all the world besides: Each part may call the farthest, brother: For head with foot hath privite amitie, And both with moons and tides.

Who is the honest man? He that doth still and strongly good pursue To God, his neighbor, and himself most true: Whom neither force nor fawning can Unpin, or wrench from giving all their due.

Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him. [Before you make a friend, eat a bushel of salt with him.]

February makes a bridge and March breakes it. [February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.]

Give not S. Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing. [Give not Saint Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.]

In cloths cheap handsomeness, doth bear the bell.

Ill ware is never cheape. [Ill ware is never cheap.]

Beauty drawes more then oxen.

The fish adores the bait.

The dark grave, which knows all secrets, can alone reclaim the fatal doubt once cast on a woman's name.

Let thy mind's sweetness have its operation upon thy body, clothes, and habitation.

Judge not the preacher; for he is thy judge: If thou mislike him, thou conceiv'st him not. God calleth preaching folly. Do not grudge To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. The worst speak something good. If all want sense, God takes a text, and preaches patience.

Lord! who hath praise enough?

Poverty is no sinne. [Poverty is no sin.]

Least at thine own things laugh.

The Jewes spend at Easter, the Moors at marriages, the Christians in sutes.

He quits his place well, that leaves his friend there.

He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.

He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]

He lives unsafely, that lookes too neere on things.

He is onely bright that shines by himselfe.

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

He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).

He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.

He hath great neede of a foole, that plaies the foole himselfe.

He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.

He carries well, to whom it waighes not. [He carries well, to whomit weighs not.]

He cannot be vertuous that is not rigorous.

He can give little to his servant, that lickes his knife. [He can give little to his servant that licks his knife.]

Hast comes not alone.

Harken to reason or shee will bee heard.

Happier are the hands compast with yron, then a heart with thoughts.

Happie is hee that chastens himselfe.

Had you the world on your Chesse-bord, you could not fill all to your mind.

Greene wood makes a hott fire.

Great trees are good for nothing but shade.

Great strokes make not sweete musick.

Great paines quickly find ease.

Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.

Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers.

Great businesses turne on a little pinne.