To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
GEORGE HERBERTOf a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
More George Herbert Quotes
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Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv’n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
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The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
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Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
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He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
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If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot.]
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He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
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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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All that shakes falles not.
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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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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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An ill deed cannot bring honor.
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The eye will have his part.
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Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
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