Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
GEORGE HERBERTLawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
More George Herbert Quotes
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He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.
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Every one is witty for his owne purpose.
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They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
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By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
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Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
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Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
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That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
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Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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The way is an ill neighbour.
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It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
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There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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