The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
GEORGE HERBERTThe worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
GEORGE HERBERTHe puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
GEORGE HERBERTHe that will be surety, shall pay.
GEORGE HERBERTA dead Bee maketh no Hony.
GEORGE HERBERTFrenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
GEORGE HERBERTTrust not one night’s ice.
GEORGE HERBERTSundays observe; think when the bells do chime, ‘T is angels’ music.
GEORGE HERBERTHe that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
GEORGE HERBERTNever was strumpet faire.
GEORGE HERBERTWhen it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
GEORGE HERBERTThe scalded head feares cold water.
GEORGE HERBERTThe eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
GEORGE HERBERTHe that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
GEORGE HERBERTReady mony is a ready Medicine.
GEORGE HERBERTThe eye will have his part.
GEORGE HERBERTHee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.
GEORGE HERBERT