He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
GEORGE HERBERTAn old dog barks not in vain.
More George Herbert Quotes
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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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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Good swimmers at length are drowned.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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When war begins, then hell openeth.
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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
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He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]
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In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
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