Top 1268 Quotes & Sayings by George Herbert - Page 4

Count not fowre except you have them in a wallett.

Folly growes without watering.

That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle and the distaffe.

Souldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.

He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

The bird loves her nest.

He that steals an egg will steal an ox.

Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head.

Corn is cleaned with wind, and the Soul with chastening

He that is not in the warres is not out of danger.

Life without a friend is death without a witnesse. [Life without a friend is death without a witness.]

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.]

I had rather aske of my sire browne bread, then borrow of my neighbour white.

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

Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose.

All things require skill but an appetite.

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

Better a bare foote then none.

He that lives most dies most.

The blind eate many a flie. [The blind eat many a fly.]

To write a verse or two is all the praise That I can raise.

The book of books, the storehouse and magazine of life and comfort, the holy Scriptures.

Unsound minds like unsound Bodies, if you feed, you poyson. [Unsound minds, like unsound bodies, if you feed, you poison.]

Keep good company, and you shall be of the number.

The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.

An old cat sports not with her prey.

With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.

You cannot hide an eele in a sacke.

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

Wisedome hath one foot on Land, and another on Sea.

Good & quickly seldome meete.

He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.

The more women looke in their glasse, the lesse they looke to their house. [The more women look in their glass, the less they look to their house.]

God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.

He that takes not up a pin, slights his wife.

He that sowes trusts in God.

To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog's foot.]

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.

Whether shall the Oxe goe, where he shall not labour?

Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.

He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, When once it is within thee; but before Mayst rule it, as thou list: and pour the shame, Which it would pour on thee, upon the floor. It is most just to throw that on the ground, Which would throw me there, if I keep the round.

Service without reward is punishment.

Hee pays too deare for honey that licks it from thornes.

A coole mouth, and warme feet, live long.

Without businesse debauchery.

Talking payes no toll.

He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.

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

A great ship asks deep water.

Money wants no followers.

Death keepes no Calender.

Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze. [Spectacles are death's arquebuse.]

He that once deceives is ever suspected.

God oft hath a great share in a little house.

God's mill grinds slow, but sure.

Of a little thing a little displeaseth.

To buy deare is not bounty.

The hard gives more then he that hath nothing.

Doe what thou oughtest, and come what come can.