To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
GEORGE HERBERTWho would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The scalded head feares cold water.
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The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
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I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
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He that is angry at a feast is rude.
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No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
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When war begins, then hell openeth.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
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Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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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.]
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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