Every one fastens where there is gaine.
GEORGE HERBERTIt’s not good fishing before the net.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
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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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There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.
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He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
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No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
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Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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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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Music helps not the toothache.
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Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
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We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
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