Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
GEORGE HERBERTTo gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]
More George Herbert Quotes
-
-
The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Where there is peace, God is.
GEORGE HERBERT -
The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
GEORGE HERBERT -
He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
GEORGE HERBERT -
By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
GEORGE HERBERT -
Who would doe ill ne’re wants occasion.
GEORGE HERBERT -
He that is angry at a feast is rude.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
GEORGE HERBERT -
God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
GEORGE HERBERT -
France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
GEORGE HERBERT -
The wife is the key of the house.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
GEORGE HERBERT -
True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
GEORGE HERBERT -
He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
GEORGE HERBERT