It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
GEORGE HERBERTIt is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
GEORGE HERBERTTo a greedy eating horse a short halter.
GEORGE HERBERTMusic helps not the toothache.
GEORGE HERBERTWhether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
GEORGE HERBERTGood and quickly seldom meet.
GEORGE HERBERTThe miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
GEORGE HERBERTHeresie is the school of pride.
GEORGE HERBERTAn ill deed cannot bring honor.
GEORGE HERBERTTrue beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
GEORGE HERBERTWhile the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]
GEORGE HERBERTHe that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
GEORGE HERBERTGiving is dead, restoring very sicke.
GEORGE HERBERTOf all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
GEORGE HERBERTLight burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
GEORGE HERBERTHee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
GEORGE HERBERTLove without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
GEORGE HERBERT