Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
GEORGE HERBERTDrink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
GEORGE HERBERTWe live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
GEORGE HERBERTThe cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
GEORGE HERBERTA feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
GEORGE HERBERTSlander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
GEORGE HERBERTThe wife is the key of the house.
GEORGE HERBERTEveryone puts his fault on the Times.
GEORGE HERBERTEstate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
GEORGE HERBERTEvery one fastens where there is gaine.
GEORGE HERBERTReligion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
GEORGE HERBERTAn ill deed cannot bring honor.
GEORGE HERBERTTrue beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
GEORGE HERBERTThere is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
GEORGE HERBERTIn a long journey straw waighs.
GEORGE HERBERTBetter speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
GEORGE HERBERTA penny spar’d is twice got.
GEORGE HERBERT