Trust not one night’s ice.
GEORGE HERBERTGossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
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The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
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To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
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He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
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I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]
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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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The eye will have his part.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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The 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.]
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
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He that staies does the businesse.
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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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