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.
GEORGE HERBERTWhen 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.
GEORGE HERBERTSum up at night what thou hast done by day.
GEORGE HERBERTAn old dog barks not in vain.
GEORGE HERBERTEnvy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
GEORGE HERBERTNever was strumpet faire.
GEORGE HERBERTTo fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
GEORGE HERBERTAn upbraided morsell never choaked any.
GEORGE HERBERTA married man turns his staffe into a stake.
GEORGE HERBERTThe life of man is a winter way.
GEORGE HERBERTGiving is dead, restoring very sicke.
GEORGE HERBERTA penny spar’d is twice got.
GEORGE HERBERTThere is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
GEORGE HERBERTHee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
GEORGE HERBERTBetter suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
GEORGE HERBERTA Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
GEORGE HERBERTPraise the Sea, but keepe on land.
GEORGE HERBERT