George Herbert Men Quotations

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

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

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

A man well mounted is ever Cholerick.

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

A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.

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.

Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store. [Giving much to the poor doth increase a man's store.]

Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.

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.]

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

Fooles bite one another, but wise-men agree together.

Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.

Every ill man hath his ill day.

Better spare to have of thine own, then aske of other men. [Better spare to have of thine own than ask of other men.]

At dinner my man appeares.

An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.

Amongst good men two men suffice.

A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose.

The drunkard forfeits man and doth divest All wordly right, save what he hath by beast.

Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another.

When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, 'Let us,'said he,'pour on him all we can: Let the world's riches, which disperse' d lie, Contract into a span'.

Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe, Whence cam'st thou, that thou art so fresh and fine? I know thy parentage is base and low: Man found thee poor and dirty in a mine.

Who hath a Wolfe for his mate, needes a Dog for his man.

When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot bee much. [When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot be much.]

When a man sleepes, his head is in his stomach.

Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned.

We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh till your hearts ake.

Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.

To a gratefull man give mony when he askes.

To a crafty man, a crafty and an halfe.

Threatned men eat bread, says the Spaniard.

Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church still.

They that hold the greatest farmes, pay the least rent (applyed to rich men that are unthankful to God).

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

There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.

There are more men threatned then stricken. [There are more men threatened than stricken.]

The singing man keepes his shop in his throate.

The sight of a man hath the force of a Lyon.

The Philosophy of Princes is to dive into the Secrets of men, leaving the secrets of nature to those that have spare time.

The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]

The life of man is a winter way.

The healthfull man can give counsell to the sick.

The fatt man knoweth not, what the leane thinketh.

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

The corne hides it self in the snow, as an old man in furrs.

The cholerick man never wants woe.

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

Take heed of the wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the people.

Speake not of a dead man at the table.

Some men plant an opinion they seem to erradicate.

Shewa good man his errour and he turnes it to a vertue, but an ill, it doubles his fault.

Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him. [Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.]

Prayers and provender hinder no journey. [Prayers and provender hinder no man's journey.]

Pension never inriched young man. [Pension never enriched a young man.]

Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death. [Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death.]

Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.

No naked man is sought after to be rifled.

No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there. [No churchyard is so handsome that a man would desire straight to be buried there.]

Men speake of the faire, as things went with them there.

Man Proposeth, God disposeth.

Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.

Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.

In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefes prove.

In the kingdome of blind men the one ey'd is king. [In the kingdom of blind men the one eyed is king.]

In sports and journeys men are knowne. [In sports and journeys men are known.]

If great men would have care of little ones, both would last long.

If a good man thrive, all thrive with him.

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

Hee commands enough that obeyes a wise man.

Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies. [Health and sickness surely are men's double enemies.]

A married man turns his staffe into a stake.

A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.

O what a sight were Man, if his attires Did alter with his minde; And like a dolphins skinne, his clothes combin'd With his desires!

Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise Their Master's flower, but leave it having done, As fair as ever and as fit to use; So both the flower doth stay and honey run.

Nothing wears clothes, but Man; nothing doth need But he to wear them.

God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,

Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest,

Be not too presumptuously sure in any business; for things of this world depend on such a train of unseen chances that if it were in man's hands to set the tables, still he would not be certain to win the game.

Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie.

Words are women, deeds are men.

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

Hope is the poor man's bread.