Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
GEORGE HERBERTBy the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.
More George Herbert Quotes
-
-
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
GEORGE HERBERT -
He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
GEORGE HERBERT -
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
GEORGE HERBERT -
There are many waies to fame. {There are many ways to fame.]
GEORGE HERBERT -
Anothers bread costs deare.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Every one fastens where there is gaine.
GEORGE HERBERT -
There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
GEORGE HERBERT -
I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]
GEORGE HERBERT -
Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
GEORGE HERBERT -
To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Good workemen are seldome rich.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Better never begin than never make an end.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
GEORGE HERBERT -
Good and quickly seldom meet.
GEORGE HERBERT -
When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
GEORGE HERBERT