George Herbert Quotes

There are many waies to fame. {There are many ways to fame.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Fame Many Way
The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
GEORGE HERBERT

Cow Lost Tail
There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
GEORGE HERBERT

Men Remedy Thing
The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
GEORGE HERBERT

Absent Dead House
Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Ears Hearing Little
Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
GEORGE HERBERT

Distance Envy Greatness
Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
GEORGE HERBERT

Good Hard Newes
He that staies does the businesse.
GEORGE HERBERT

Busines Gather People Staiies
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
GEORGE HERBERT

Deception Feet Physicians
Anothers bread costs deare.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bread Cost Dear
I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Fish Morsel Take
True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
GEORGE HERBERT

Beauty Flame Light
He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
GEORGE HERBERT

Ask Book Sounsell
By 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 HERBERT

Needle Past People Thread
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
GEORGE HERBERT

Make Mill Paire Wind
God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
GEORGE HERBERT

End Furthest Thinke
By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.
GEORGE HERBERT

Mean Measure Run Year
In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Bottom Swim World
Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Better Health People Suffer
Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
GEORGE HERBERT

Dead Give Restore
Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
GEORGE HERBERT

Ever Himself Look Well
Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.
GEORGE HERBERT

Fool Hour Wit
It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Egg Hard Shave
He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
GEORGE HERBERT

Long Rope Wait
Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
GEORGE HERBERT

Credit Eye Touched
Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
GEORGE HERBERT

Built House Lawyer
Trust not one night’s ice.
GEORGE HERBERT

Ice Night Trust

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