A Quote by George Herbert

It is good to hold the asse by the bridle.

George Herbert

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Bridle Good Hold

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

I always feel that in politics, you have a bridle on. Well, I took the bridle off. And I tell you, it felt pretty good.

Ray Nagin

Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]

George Herbert

The last good time always comes, and when you see the darkness creeping toward you, you hold on to what was bright and good. You hold on for dear life.

Stephen King

Prosperity lets goe the bridle.

George Herbert

Remain steadfast in the faith; instruct yourself; bridle your tongue; repress your wrath; forbear to do evil; associate with the good; screen the faults of your neighbour; relieve the poor by your alms; and expect your reward in eternity.

Edouard Rene de Laboulaye

You cannot really have the world and hold on to it. It is all too temporary and the more you try to hold on to it, the more it actually holds you. By contrast, the more you hold on to the true and the good, the more you are free to really live.

Ravi Zacharias

The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.

Leonardo da Vinci

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.

Leonardo da Vinci

The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.

Plutarch

Thoughts arising from practical experience may be a bridle or a spur.

Hyman Rickover

To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife.

R. Scott Bakker

Matrimonially speaking, a bridle for the tongue is better than a rein for the heart.

Minna Antrim

If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse.

Peire Cardenal

You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.