Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
GEORGE HERBERTPrettiness dies first.
More George Herbert Quotes
-
-
It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
GEORGE HERBERT -
In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
GEORGE HERBERT -
I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
GEORGE HERBERT -
He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
GEORGE HERBERT -
He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.
GEORGE HERBERT -
They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
GEORGE HERBERT -
The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
GEORGE HERBERT -
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
GEORGE HERBERT -
By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Shall 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 HERBERT -
True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
GEORGE HERBERT -
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.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
GEORGE HERBERT -
Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
GEORGE HERBERT -
He that is angry at a feast is rude.
GEORGE HERBERT







