Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
GEORGE HERBERTOf a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
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.
GEORGE HERBERTWhen thou dost tell another’s jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
GEORGE HERBERTA little labour, much health.
GEORGE HERBERTThe devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
GEORGE HERBERTHe puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
GEORGE HERBERTShall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv’n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
GEORGE HERBERTHe that burnes most shines most.
GEORGE HERBERTIn 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.
GEORGE HERBERTNo profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
GEORGE HERBERTThere are many waies to fame. {There are many ways to fame.]
GEORGE HERBERTThat flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
GEORGE HERBERTGood words are worth much, and cost little.
GEORGE HERBERTConversation makes one what he is.
GEORGE HERBERTHe that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
GEORGE HERBERTNone knows the weight of another’s burden.
GEORGE HERBERT