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.
GEORGE HERBERTWhen 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.
GEORGE HERBERTGod is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
GEORGE HERBERTOnly a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
GEORGE HERBERTDally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
GEORGE HERBERTYou cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
GEORGE HERBERTGood workemen are seldome rich.
GEORGE HERBERTThe dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
GEORGE HERBERTThe honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
GEORGE HERBERTWhere you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
GEORGE HERBERTLittle pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
GEORGE HERBERTTo take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot.]
GEORGE HERBERTHe that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.
GEORGE HERBERTReligion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
GEORGE HERBERTA dead Bee maketh no Hony.
GEORGE HERBERTThe reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]
GEORGE HERBERTEvery one is witty for his owne purpose.
GEORGE HERBERT