Top 1268 Quotes & Sayings by George Herbert - Page 17
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
He that contemplates hath a day without night.
A jade eates as much as a good horse.
A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors.
[A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
A long tongue is a signe of a short hand.
[A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.]
A horse stumbles that hath foure legges.
[A horse stumbles that has four legs.]
A man well mounted is ever Cholerick.
A faire death honours the whole life.
He that hath no good trade, it is to his losse.
He that hath little is the lesse durtie.
He that dies without the company of good men puts not himselfe into a good way.
A fair day in winter is the mother of a storme.
He that gives all before hee dies provides to suffer.
He that is surprized with the first frost feeles it all the winter after.
He that hath no hony in his pot, let him have it in his mouth.
A hatt is not made for one shower.
He that gives me small gifts would have me live.
He that hath lands hath quarrells.
He that lives well sees a farre off.
A full belly neither fights nor flies well.
He that burnes most shines most.
He that marries late, marries ill.
A drunkards purse is a bottle.
A disarmed peace is weake.
He that chastens one, chastens 20.
A good prayer is master of anothers purse.
A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
He that looseth is Marchant as well as he that gaines.
A holy habit clenseth not a foule soule.
A journying woman speakes much of all, and all of her.
He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it.
[He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
A little given seasonably excuses a great gift.
A kinsman, a friend, or whom you intreate, take not to serve you, if you will be served neately.
He that lives not well one yeare, sorrowes seven after.
[He that lives not well one year sorrows seven years after.]
He that deales in the world needes foure seeves.
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 hopes not for good, feares not evill.
He that feares death lives not.
He that is warme, thinkes all so.
He that makes his bed ill, lies there.
He that lends, gives.
A little labour, much health.
He that hath hornes in his bosom, let him not put them on his head.
He that is angry at a feast is rude.
A good Judge conceives quickly, judges slowly.
He that is fallen cannot helpe him that is downe.
[He that is fallen cannot help him that is down.]
He that feares leaves, let him not goe into the wood.
A Lyons skin is never cheape.
A little and good fills the trencher.
He that is his owne Counsellor knowes nothing sure but what hee hath laid out.
A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.
He that is once borne, once must dy.
A house and a woman sute excellently.
He that hath time and looks for better time, time comes that he repents himself of time.
He that owes nothing, if he makes not mouthes at us, is courteous.
He that plaies his mony ought not to value it.
He that mockes a cripple, ought to be whole.
He that passeth a winters day escapes an enemy.
He that pitties another, remembers himselfe.
He that praiseth himselfe spattereth himselfe.
[He that praiseth himself spatteteth himself.]
He that measures not himselfe, is measured.
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