Top 1268 Quotes & Sayings by George Herbert - Page 5
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
A City that parlies is half gotten.
[A city that parleys is half gotten.]
If yee would know a knave, give him a staffe.
Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand.
Death keeps no calendar.
A shippe and a woman are ever repairing.
Ships feare fire more then water.
[Ships fear fire more than water.]
Shewa good man his errour and he turnes it to a vertue, but an ill, it doubles his fault.
Rivers neede a spring.
The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not.
Send not a Catt for Lard.
Some evils are cured by contempt.
Short boughs, long vintage.
Fine dressing is a foule house swept before the doores.
Serve a noble disposition, though poore, the time comes that hee will repay thee.
Shee spins well that breedes her children.
Speake fitly, or be silent wisely.
A sleepy master makes his servant a Lowt.
Wealth is the Conjurer's Devil, Whom, when he thinks he hath, the Devil hath him.
States have their conversions and periods as well as naturall bodies.
He that goeth farre hath many encounters.
The healthfull man can give counsell to the sick.
A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb.
To the counsel of fools a wooden bell.
Every thing new is fine.
Speake not of a dead man at the table.
Every ill man hath his ill day.
Beate the dog before the Lyon.
Service is no Inheritance.
Hee that is a master must serve (another).
A crooked log makes a strait fire.
Some men plant an opinion they seem to erradicate.
Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
Saint Luke was a Saint and a Physitian, yet is dead.
Silkes and Satins put out the fire in the chimney.
Say no ill of the yeere, till it be past.
[Say no ill of the year till it be past.]
Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest.
Spies are the ears and eyes of Princes.
Some make a conscience of spitting in the Church, yet robbe the Altar.
Little pitchers have wide eares.
[Little pitchers have wide ears.]
Set good against evill.
[Set good against evil.]
Sinnes are not knowne till they bee acted.
Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him.
[Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.]
A wolfe will never make war against another wolfe.
Trust not one night's ice.
Sleepe without supping, and wake without owing.
Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.
Soft and faire goes farre.
In every Art it is good to have a master.
[In every art it is good to have a master.]
Silke doth quench the fire in the Kitchin.
Sweet discourse makes short daies and nights.
[Sweet discourse makes short days and nights.]
Take heed of a young wench, a prophetesse, and a Lattin bred woman.
Such a Saint, such an offering.
Take heed of a person marked, and a Widdow thrice married.
[Take heed of a person marked, and a widow thrice married.]
Take heed of a step-mother; the very name of her sufficeth.
Take heed of credit decaid, and people that have nothing.
Still fisheth he that catcheth one.
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