Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
GEORGE HERBERTHe that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
More George Herbert Quotes
-
-
The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
GEORGE HERBERT -
To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
GEORGE HERBERT -
A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
GEORGE HERBERT -
When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
GEORGE HERBERT -
By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
GEORGE HERBERT -
The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
GEORGE HERBERT -
Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Good is the mora that makes all sure.
GEORGE HERBERT