Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
GEORGE HERBERTThe miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
More George Herbert Quotes
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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
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Better never begin than never make an end.
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The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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A child correct behind and not before.
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Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth not.
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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]
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