A Quote by George Herbert

The Apothecaries morter spoiles the Luters musick.

Quote Author

George Herbert
British - Poet
April 3, 1593 - March 1, 1633

If we admit instrumental musick in the worship of God, how can we resist the imposition of all the instruments used among the ancient Jews?—yea, dancing as well as playing, and several other Judaic actions? or, how can we decline a whole rabble of church-officers, necessary to be introduced for instrumental musick, whereof our Lord Jesus Christ hath left us no manner of direction?

Cotton Mather

Musick helps not the tooth-ach.

George Herbert

Great strokes make not sweete musick.

George Herbert

Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast...

William Congreve

If odours may worke satisfaction, they are so soveraigne in plants and so comfortable that no confection of the apothecaries can equall their excellent vertue.

John Gerard

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.

Alexander Pope

There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.

Thomas Browne

There are apothecaries' shops, where prepared medicines, liquids, ointments, and plasters are sold; barbers' shops, where they wash and shave the head; and restaurateurs, that furnish food and drink at a certain price.

Hernan Cortes

Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?

Laurence Sterne

Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make us incapable of hearing Sense, if it would exclude Arts that have a much greater Tendency to the Refinement of human Nature; I must confess I would allow it no better Quarter than Plato has done, who banishes it out of his Common-wealth.

Joseph Addison

Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose, To th' active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn's string a touch more sore and grave. The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur'd dance of all. And this is Musick.

Abraham Cowley

I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine. (12 May 1780)

John Adams

A Quote by George Herbert

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors