A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
GEORGE HERBERTA fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
More George Herbert Quotes
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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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Never was strumpet faire.
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Better never begin than never make an end.
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To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot.]
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He that will be surety, shall pay.
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Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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