Good workemen are seldome rich.
GEORGE HERBERTGood workemen are seldome rich.
GEORGE HERBERTGod is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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 HERBERTDally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
GEORGE HERBERTMusic helps not the toothache.
GEORGE HERBERTHee that brings good newes knockes hard.
GEORGE HERBERTHee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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 HERBERTSink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
GEORGE HERBERTFrenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
GEORGE HERBERTNo profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
GEORGE HERBERTI envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
GEORGE HERBERTTo a greedy eating horse a short halter.
GEORGE HERBERTA fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
GEORGE HERBERTHee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
GEORGE HERBERTA penny spar’d is twice got.
GEORGE HERBERT