A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
GEORGE HERBERTShips feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
More George Herbert Quotes
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The way is an ill neighbour.
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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
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Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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When war begins, then hell openeth.
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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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