The wife is the key of the house.
GEORGE HERBERTTo a greedy eating horse a short halter.
More George Herbert Quotes
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It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
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Conversation makes one what he is.
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To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
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It’s a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
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An ill deed cannot bring honor.
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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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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While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]
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Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]
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In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.
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A child correct behind and not before.
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