George Herbert Quotes

Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bread Estate Two Wallet
Ready mony is a ready Medicine.
GEORGE HERBERT

Medicine Mony People Ready
A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Fat House Keeper
The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]
GEORGE HERBERT

Men Miserable Pennies
Good swimmers at length are drowned.
GEORGE HERBERT

Drowned Length Swimmer
Astrologie is true, but the Astrologers cannot finde it.
GEORGE HERBERT

Astrology Find Matter People
Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bacon Chimney Think
No Alchymy to saving.
GEORGE HERBERT

Alchymy People Save
Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
GEORGE HERBERT

Better None People Servant
Music helps not the toothache.
GEORGE HERBERT

Help Music Toothache
Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
GEORGE HERBERT

Land Ocean Sea
Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
GEORGE HERBERT

Gold Hands Lost
Conversation makes one what he is.
GEORGE HERBERT

Conversation Make People Success
Good and quickly seldom meet.
GEORGE HERBERT

Haste Meet Seldom
The scalded head feares cold water.
GEORGE HERBERT

Cold Fear Water
Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.
GEORGE HERBERT

Covertly Rude Speak Truth
The cholerick man never wants woe.
GEORGE HERBERT

Cholerick Men Need Woe
A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
GEORGE HERBERT

Married Men Stake
Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
GEORGE HERBERT

Food Smell Taste
Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
GEORGE HERBERT

Debt Grow Rich
The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bees Know Spy
When 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 HERBERT

Mirth Needs Sin
Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
GEORGE HERBERT

King Void Years
He that is angry at a feast is rude.
GEORGE HERBERT

Angry Feast Rude
He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
GEORGE HERBERT

Book Gains Need
Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
GEORGE HERBERT

Blame Peter Saint
In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
GEORGE HERBERT

Bees Found Rivers

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