A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
GEORGE HERBERTWith customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
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Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
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Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.
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He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
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It is better to have wings then hornes.
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A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
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Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]
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A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
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Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
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The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
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The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
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By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
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Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
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