The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
GEORGE HERBERTHe that is angry at a feast is rude.
More George Herbert Quotes
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When thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
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When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
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By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
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There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
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Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
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The scalded head feares cold water.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
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When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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When war begins, then hell openeth.
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In a long journey straw waighs.
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
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No Alchymy to saving.
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The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
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He that staies does the businesse.
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A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
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