Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
GEORGE HERBERTThey that are booted are not alwaies ready.
More George Herbert Quotes
-
-
Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
GEORGE HERBERT -
The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
GEORGE HERBERT -
He that staies does the businesse.
GEORGE HERBERT -
It’s not good fishing before the net.
GEORGE HERBERT -
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
GEORGE HERBERT -
No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
GEORGE HERBERT -
True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Every one is witty for his owne purpose.
GEORGE HERBERT -
The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
GEORGE HERBERT -
To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]
GEORGE HERBERT -
There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
GEORGE HERBERT -
By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
GEORGE HERBERT