Top 1268 Quotes & Sayings by George Herbert - Page 15
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
Every one thinkes his sacke heaviest.
Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
Disgraces are like cherries, one drawes another.
[Disgraces are like cherries, one draws another.]
Every one fastens where there is gaine.
Emptie vessels sound most.
Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning.
Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow.
Feare, the Bedle of the Law.
Feare keepes the garden better then the gardiner.
Every thing is of use to a houskeeper.
Discreet women have neither eyes nor eares.
[Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears.]
Faire language grates not the tongue.
For washing his hands, none sels his lands.
Feares are divided in the midst.
Dry feet, warme head, bring safe to bed.
Faire words makes mee looke to my purse.
Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner.
Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
Divine grace was never slow.
Every one is witty for his owne purpose.
Give loosers leave to talke.
Danger it selfe the best remedy for danger.
Dally not with mony or women.
[Dally not with money or women.]
Every one stretcheth his legges according to his coverlet.
[Every one stretches his legs according to his coverlet.]
Dry bread at home is better then rost meate abroad.
Drought never brought dearth.
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.]
Either wealth is much increased, or moderation is much decayed.
Evening words are not like to morning.
Farre shooting never kild bird.
Every day brings his bread with it.
Ever since we weare cloathes, we know not one another.
France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
Every sin brings its punishment with it.
Everyone is a master and servant.
Fooles bite one another, but wise-men agree together.
Evils have their comfort, good none can support.
Forbeare not sowing because of birds.
Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
Fortune to one is Mother, to another is Step-mother.
Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.
Favour will as surely perish as life.
Fooles give to please all but their owne.
Dogs are fine in the field.
Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.
Faire is not faire, but that which pleaseth.
Every one hath a foole in his sleeve.
Every bees hony is sweet.
For a morning raine leave not your journey.
[For a morning rain leave not your journey.]
Divine ashes are better then earthly meale.
For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is incompossible.
Empty Chambers make foolish maides.
Flies are busiest about leane horses.
God comes to see without a bell.
God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords.
Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store.
[Giving much to the poor doth increase a man's store.]
God complaines not, but doth what is fitting.
God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
Good horses make short miles.
Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
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