To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
GEORGE HERBERTNever was strumpet faire.
More George Herbert Quotes
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The cholerick man never wants woe.
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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The offender never pardons.
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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
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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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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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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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An old dog barks not in vain.
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He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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