Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
GEORGE HERBERTHe plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]
More George Herbert Quotes
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Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
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The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
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When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
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The life of man is a winter way.
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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
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The wife is the key of the house.
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God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
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To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
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Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
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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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When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
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