The scalded head feares cold water.
GEORGE HERBERTThe eye will have his part.
More George Herbert Quotes
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A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
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The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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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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Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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Brabling Curres never want torne eares.
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The life of man is a winter way.
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Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
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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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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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