Top 1268 Quotes & Sayings by George Herbert - Page 16
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.
Great strokes make not sweete musick.
Good newes may bee told at any time, but ill in the morning.
Harken to reason or shee will bee heard.
Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers.
He can give little to his servant, that lickes his knife.
[He can give little to his servant that licks his knife.]
Good land, evill way.
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?
He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
Good is to bee sought out, and evill attended.
He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
February makes a bridge and March breakes it.
[February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.]
Let thy mind's sweetness have its operation upon thy body, clothes, and habitation.
Great almes-giving lessens no mans living.
He quits his place well, that leaves his friend there.
Poverty is no sinne.
[Poverty is no sin.]
The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.
Good swimmers at length are drowned.
He cannot be vertuous that is not rigorous.
The longest Day hath an Eueninge.
Good is the mora that makes all sure.
Good is god, but better carries it.
He carries well, to whom it waighes not.
[He carries well, to whomit weighs not.]
Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
Goods are theirs that enjoy them.
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.
Great businesses turne on a little pinne.
Great trees are good for nothing but shade.
The Jewes spend at Easter, the Moors at marriages, the Christians in sutes.
Happie is hee that chastens himselfe.
Greene wood makes a hott fire.
Much money makes a Countrey poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.
He hath great neede of a foole, that plaies the foole himselfe.
He is onely bright that shines by himselfe.
The fish adores the bait.
He lives unsafely, that lookes too neere on things.
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.
Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?
Man is all symmetry
Full of proportions, one limb to another,
And all to all the world besides;
Each part may call the farthest, brother;
For head with foot hath private amity
And both with moons and tides.
Happier are the hands compast with yron, then a heart with thoughts.
Least at thine own things laugh.
Beauty drawes more then oxen.
Good words quench more then a bucket of water.
Ill ware is never cheape.
[Ill ware is never cheap.]
He plaies well that winnes.
[He plays well that wins.]
Hast comes not alone.
Had you the world on your Chesse-bord, you could not fill all to your mind.
In cloths cheap handsomeness, doth bear the bell.
Good service is a great inchantment.
Give not S. Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.
[Give not Saint Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.]
Great paines quickly find ease.
The dark grave, which knows all secrets, can alone reclaim the fatal doubt once cast on a woman's name.
A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
A blustering night, a faire day.
[A blustering night, a fair day.]
A child correct behind and not before.
A curst Cow hath short hornes.
[A curst cow has short horns.]
A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid.
[A diligent scholar, and the master's paid.]
A bad dog never sees the Wolfe.
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