A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
GEORGE HERBERTIf folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
More George Herbert Quotes
-
-
No Alchymy to saving.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
GEORGE HERBERT -
When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Good and quickly seldom meet.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
GEORGE HERBERT -
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
GEORGE HERBERT -
True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
GEORGE HERBERT -
He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
GEORGE HERBERT -
He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
GEORGE HERBERT -
I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]
GEORGE HERBERT -
The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
GEORGE HERBERT