Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
GEORGE HERBERTHee that brings good newes knockes hard.
GEORGE HERBERTIn 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.
GEORGE HERBERTThat flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
GEORGE HERBERTThe wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
GEORGE HERBERTHee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.
GEORGE HERBERTOf a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
GEORGE HERBERTThe way is an ill neighbour.
GEORGE HERBERTMany, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
GEORGE HERBERTLight burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
GEORGE HERBERTEveryone puts his fault on the Times.
GEORGE HERBERTReady mony is a ready Medicine.
GEORGE HERBERTThe tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
GEORGE HERBERTNo Alchymy to saving.
GEORGE HERBERTThe dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
GEORGE HERBERTWater, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
GEORGE HERBERTTo a good spender God is the Treasurer.
GEORGE HERBERT