The wife is the key of the house.
GEORGE HERBERTAnothers bread costs deare.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
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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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Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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Anothers bread costs deare.
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To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
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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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A child correct behind and not before.
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Never was strumpet faire.
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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All our pompe the earth covers.
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In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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