To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
GEORGE HERBERTThe wife is the key of the house.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
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A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
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The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
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The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.
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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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The way is an ill neighbour.
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There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
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Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
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Good and quickly seldom meet.
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Trust not one night’s ice.
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