He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
GEORGE HERBERTWater, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
More George Herbert Quotes
-
-
In a long journey straw waighs.
GEORGE HERBERT -
A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
GEORGE HERBERT -
The cholerick man never wants woe.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Heresie is the school of pride.
GEORGE HERBERT -
The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
GEORGE HERBERT -
Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
GEORGE HERBERT -
By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
GEORGE HERBERT -
To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot.]
GEORGE HERBERT -
True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
GEORGE HERBERT -
An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Never was strumpet faire.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
GEORGE HERBERT -
The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
GEORGE HERBERT