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The tooth-ach is more ease then to deale with ill people. -- George Herbert
Man is no star, but a quick coal
Of mortal fire:
Who blows it not, nor doth control
A faint desire, -- George Herbert
We must love, as looking one day to hate. -- George Herbert
He that hath a head of waxe must not walke in the sunne.
[He that hath a head of wax must not walk in the sun.] -- George Herbert
A good bargaine is a pick-purse.
[A good bargain is a pick-purse.] -- George Herbert
Faire words makes mee looke to my purse. -- George Herbert
A good prayer is master of anothers purse. -- George Herbert
It's an ill aire where wee gaine nothing. -- George Herbert
Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers. -- George Herbert
I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish.
[I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.] -- George Herbert
He that lives well sees a farre off. -- George Herbert
Wealth is the Conjurer's Devil, Whom, when he thinks he hath, the Devil hath him. -- George Herbert
Dogs are fine in the field. -- George Herbert
He cannot be vertuous that is not rigorous. -- George Herbert
There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly.
[There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.] -- George Herbert
A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning. -- George Herbert
Hee that loves the tree, loves the branch. -- George Herbert
Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender heart so long, Till it get wing, and flie away with Thee. -- George Herbert
The Jews spend at Easter. -- George Herbert
Sinnes are not knowne till they bee acted. -- George Herbert
That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle and the distaffe. -- George Herbert
A crooked log makes a strait fire. -- George Herbert
The words ending in Ique do mocke the Physician (as Hectique, Paralitique, Apoplectique, Lethargique). -- George Herbert
The book of books, the storehouse and magazine of life and comfort, the holy Scriptures. -- George Herbert
The bit that one eates, no friend makes. -- George Herbert
The ballance distinguisheth not betweene gold and lead. -- George Herbert
He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books). -- George Herbert
Dry bread at home is better then rost meate abroad. -- George Herbert
Night is the mother of counsels. -- George Herbert
Two sparrows on one Ear of Corn make an ill agreement. -- George Herbert
Take heed of a young wench, a prophetesse, and a Lattin bred woman. -- George Herbert
How wide is all this long pretense!
There is in love a sweetness ready penned,
Copy out only that, and save expense. -- George Herbert
Danger it selfe the best remedy for danger. -- George Herbert
Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise
Their Master's flower, but leave it having done,
As fair as ever and as fit to use;
So both the flower doth stay and honey run. -- George Herbert
When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet.
[When the tree is fallen, all go with their hatchet.] -- George Herbert
A man is known to be mortal by two things, Sleep and Lust. -- George Herbert
The slothful is the servant of the counters. -- George Herbert
Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse. -- George Herbert
Honor and profit lie not all in one sack. -- George Herbert
Everyone thinks his sack heaviest. -- George Herbert
Persons unmask their evilest qualities when they do quarrel. -- George Herbert
Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunke. -- George Herbert
Good horses make short miles. -- George Herbert
To a greedy eating horse a short halter. -- George Herbert
He that feares death lives not. -- George Herbert
Shewa good man his errour and he turnes it to a vertue, but an ill, it doubles his fault. -- George Herbert
Ill natures, the more you aske them, the more they stick. -- George Herbert
It's absurd to warme one in his armour. -- George Herbert
Though punishment be slow, still it comes. -- George Herbert
Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store.
[Giving much to the poor doth increase a man's store.] -- George Herbert
Brabling Curres never want torne eares. -- George Herbert
He that preacheth giveth almes. -- George Herbert
When the Foxe preacheth, beware geese. -- George Herbert
The worst speak something good; if all want sense,
God takes a text, and preacheth patience. -- George Herbert
A verse may find him whom a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice ... -- George Herbert
Who must account for himselfe and others, must know both. -- George Herbert
The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one. -- George Herbert
One enemy is too much. -- George Herbert
To go upon the Franciscans Hackney (i.e. on foot). -- George Herbert
Good is to bee sought out, and evill attended. -- George Herbert
Hee that falles into the durt, the longer he stayes there, the fowler he is. -- George Herbert
He that lends, gives. -- George Herbert
The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings. -- George Herbert
The corne hides it self in the snow, as an old man in furrs. -- George Herbert
But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and Aristotle, has no more essential permanence as a final expression of the human mind, than the Scottish Longer Catechism. -- George Herbert
Give loosers leave to talke. -- George Herbert
Take heed of a person marked, and a Widdow thrice married.
[Take heed of a person marked, and a widow thrice married.] -- George Herbert
Do well and right and let the world sink. -- George Herbert
He that seekes trouble never misses.
[He that seeks trouble never misses.] -- George Herbert
There is no man, though never so little, but sometimes he can hurt. -- George Herbert
A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two. [A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two. -- George Herbert
Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour. -- George Herbert
Sometimes the best gain is to lose. -- George Herbert
He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth. -- George Herbert
Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes
Error a fault, and truth discourtesy. -- George Herbert
The resolved mind hath no cares. -- George Herbert
Litle stickes kindle the fire; great ones put it out. -- George Herbert
Hee that goes to bed thirsty riseth healthy. -- George Herbert
War makes thieves and peace hangs them. -- George Herbert
Bibles laid open, millions of surprises. -- George Herbert
Although it raine, throw not away thy watering pot. -- George Herbert
The cholerick man never wants woe. -- George Herbert
A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two. -- George Herbert
Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise. -- George Herbert
Teach me, my God and king In all things thee to see And what I do in anything To do it as for thee -- George Herbert
Although the sun shine, leave not thy cloake at home. -- George Herbert
Farre shooting never kild bird. -- George Herbert
A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well. -- George Herbert
True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence. -- George Herbert
As flames do work and wind when they ascend,
So did I weave myself into the sense. -- George Herbert
Some make a conscience of spitting in the Church, yet robbe the Altar. -- George Herbert
Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe. -- George Herbert
He is not poore that hath little, but he that desireth much. -- George Herbert
Let thy mind's sweetness have its operation upon thy body, clothes, and habitation. -- George Herbert
There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it. -- George Herbert
Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie. -- George Herbert
Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies.
[Health and sickness surely are men's double enemies.] -- George Herbert
Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft.
[Of a pig's tail you can never make a good shaft.] -- George Herbert
You must strike in measure, when there are many to strike on one Anvile. -- George Herbert
A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast. -- George Herbert
Gold opens all locks, no lock will hold against the power of gold. -- George Herbert
God sees hearts as we see faces. -- George Herbert
Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg'd, make thy accounts agree. -- George Herbert
Much money makes a Countrey poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing. -- George Herbert
He that dies without the company of good men puts not himselfe into a good way. -- George Herbert
To be too busie gets contempt. -- George Herbert
If the mother had not beene in the oven, shee had never sought her daughter there. -- George Herbert
Shee spins well that breedes her children. -- George Herbert
A woman conceales what shee knowes not. -- George Herbert
Harken to reason or shee will bee heard. -- George Herbert
A rugged stone growes smooth from hand to hand. -- George Herbert
Hee that's fed at anothers hand may stay long ere he be full. -- George Herbert
The offender never pardons. -- George Herbert
There are three waies, the Vniversities, the Sea, the Court. -- George Herbert
Valour that parlies is neare yeelding.
[Valor that parleys is near yielding.] -- George Herbert
Faire language grates not the tongue. -- George Herbert
No love is foule, nor prison fair. -- George Herbert
Pull downe your hatt on the winds side. -- George Herbert
The Philosophy of Princes is to dive into the Secrets of men, leaving the secrets of nature to those that have spare time. -- George Herbert
You may be on land, yet not in a garden. -- George Herbert
Happier are the hands compast with yron, then a heart with thoughts. -- George Herbert
The thread breakes, where it is weakest. -- George Herbert
A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin. -- George Herbert
The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish. -- George Herbert
We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better. -- George Herbert
Speake fitly, or be silent wisely. -- George Herbert
Men speake of the faire, as things went with them there. -- George Herbert
Speake not of a dead man at the table. -- George Herbert
Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly. -- George Herbert
To speake of an Vsurer at the table marres the wine. -- George Herbert
The wife is the key of the house. -- George Herbert
It is good to hold the asse by the bridle. -- George Herbert
The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts.
[The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.] -- George Herbert
An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue. -- George Herbert
He that speakes sowes, and he that holds his peace, gathers. -- George Herbert
The higher the Ape goes, the more he shewes his taile.
[The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.] -- George Herbert
One sound blow will serve to undo us all. -- George Herbert
Love is swift of foot;/Love's a man of war. -- George Herbert
The scalded head feares cold water. -- George Herbert
Mend your clothes and you may hold out this year. -- George Herbert
The chicken is the country's, but the city eats it. -- George Herbert
Little dogs start the Hare, the great get her. -- George Herbert
Aske much to have a little. -- George Herbert
Presents of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers. -- George Herbert
Benefits please like flowers while they are fresh. -- George Herbert
In the kingdome of blind men the one ey'd is king.
[In the kingdom of blind men the one eyed is king.] -- George Herbert
To play at Chesse when the house is on fire. -- George Herbert
None saies his Garner is full. -- George Herbert
From a chollerick man withdraw a little; from him that saies nothing, for ever.
[From a choleric man withdraw a little; from him that says nothing, for ever.] -- George Herbert
The Fox, when hee cannot reach the grapes, saies they are not ripe. -- George Herbert
The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire. -- George Herbert
Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death.
[Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death.] -- George Herbert
Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men. -- George Herbert
A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors.
[A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.] -- George Herbert
Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it? -- George Herbert
For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is incompossible. -- George Herbert
It is good to have friends both in Heaven and Hell. -- George Herbert
Gifts enter every where without a wimble. -- George Herbert
The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd. -- George Herbert
Hell is full of good meanings and wishings. -- George Herbert
Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth. -- George Herbert
Ready mony is a ready Medicine. -- George Herbert
Who hath a Wolfe for his mate, needes a Dog for his man. -- George Herbert
Woe be to him that reads but one book. -- George Herbert
Yeeres know more then bookes. -- George Herbert
Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night. -- George Herbert
That which two will, takes effect. -- George Herbert
If that thy fame with ev'ry toy be pos'd, 'Tis a thin web, which poysonous fancies make; But the great souldier's honour was compos'd Of thicker stuf, which would endure a shake. Wisdom picks friends; civility plays the rest; A toy shunn'd cleanly passeth with the best. -- George Herbert
Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches. -- George Herbert
Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him.
[Before you make a friend, eat a bushel of salt with him.] -- George Herbert
Life is half spent before we know what it is. -- George Herbert
In doing we learne.
[In doing we learn.] -- George Herbert
One mouth doth nothing without another. -- George Herbert
Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance. -- George Herbert
He that will not have peace, God gives him warre.
[He that will not have peace, God gives him war.] -- George Herbert
The March sunne raises but dissolves not. -- George Herbert
The first dish pleaseth all. -- George Herbert
Leave jesting whiles it pleaseth, lest it turne to earnest. -- George Herbert
You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth. -- George Herbert
Justice pleaseth few in their owne house.
[Justice pleases few in their own house.] -- George Herbert
Faire is not faire, but that which pleaseth. -- George Herbert
When a dog is drowning, everyone offers him a drink. -- George Herbert
If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains. If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains. -- George Herbert
A bad workman quarrels with his tools. -- George Herbert
To a child all weather is cold. -- George Herbert
It is a poor sport that is not worth a candle. -- George Herbert
To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe. -- George Herbert
Old Camels carry young Camels skins to the Market. -- George Herbert
That from small fires comes oft no small mishap. -- George Herbert
Love askes faith, and faith firmenesse. -- George Herbert
The hole calls the thiefe.
[The hole calls the thief.] -- George Herbert
The fish adores the bait. -- George Herbert
The escaped mouse ever feeles the taste of the bait.
[The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.] -- George Herbert
Fine dressing is a foule house swept before the doores. -- George Herbert
Let not him that feares feathers come among wild-foule. -- George Herbert
To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule. -- George Herbert
A holy habit clenseth not a foule soule. -- George Herbert
To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure. -- George Herbert
Three helping one another, beare the burthen of sixe.
[Three helping one another, bear the burden of six.] -- George Herbert
An ill agreement is better then a good judgement.
[An ill agreement is better than a good judgment.] -- George Herbert
The blind eate many a flie.
[The blind eat many a fly.] -- George Herbert
Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets. -- George Herbert
All are presumed good till they are found at fault. -- George Herbert
He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head. -- George Herbert
If you must flie, flie well. -- George Herbert
In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love. -- George Herbert
Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe,
Whence cam'st thou, that thou art so fresh and fine?
I know thy parentage is base and low:
Man found thee poor and dirty in a mine. -- George Herbert
No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a Chappell hard by. -- George Herbert
Feare, the Bedle of the Law. -- George Herbert
Good land, evill way. -- George Herbert
Who is the honest man?
He that doth still and strongly good pursue
To God, his neighbor, and himself most true:
Whom neither force nor fawning can
Unpin, or wrench from giving all their due. -- George Herbert
The singing man keepes his shop in his throate. -- George Herbert
A broken Altar, Lord, thy servant rears, Made of a heart, and cemented with tears. -- George Herbert
Had you the world on your Chesse-bord, you could not fill all to your mind. -- George Herbert
All truths are not to be told. -- George Herbert
The way is an ill neighbour. -- George Herbert
The great put the little on the hooke. -- George Herbert
A good pay-master starts not at assurances. -- George Herbert
To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot.
[To take the nuts from the fire with the dog's foot.] -- George Herbert
Who goes to bed, and doth not pray, Maketh two nights to every day! -- George Herbert
Marry your sonne when you will; your daughter when you can.
[Marry your son when you will, your daughter when you can.] -- George Herbert
You cannot know wine by the barrell. -- George Herbert
Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away. -- George Herbert
Take heede of the viniger of sweet wine. -- George Herbert
Take heede of an oxe before, of an horse behind, of a monke on all sides. -- George Herbert
In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned. -- George Herbert
He that cockers his child, provides for his enemie. -- George Herbert
Gold thou mayst safely touch; but if it stick Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick. -- George Herbert
He that needs five thousand pound to live,
Is full as poor as he that needs but five. -- George Herbert
Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another. -- George Herbert
Prosperity lets goe the bridle. -- George Herbert
The dainties of the great are the teares of the poore. -- George Herbert
Our owne actions are our security, not others judgements. -- George Herbert
Power seldome grows old at Court. -- George Herbert
With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us. -- George Herbert
Fooles give to please all but their owne. -- George Herbert
Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney. -- George Herbert
Storms make the oak grow deeper roots. -- George Herbert
The masters eye fattens the horse, and his foote the ground. -- George Herbert
A faire death honours the whole life. -- George Herbert
After so many deaths I live and write; -- George Herbert
Many kiss the hand they wish cut off. -- George Herbert
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
The eye is bigger then the belly.
[The eye is bigger than the belly.] -- George Herbert
The world is now adayes, God save the Conquerour. -- George Herbert
Love makes one fitt for any work. -- George Herbert
Cruelty is more cruell, if we defer the pain. -- George Herbert
Greene wood makes a hott fire. -- George Herbert
Working and making a fire doth discretion require. -- George Herbert
Good service is a great inchantment. -- 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
Evils have their comfort, good none can support. -- George Herbert
Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing. -- George Herbert
If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him. -- George Herbert
To a crafty man, a crafty and an halfe. -- George Herbert
A well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken to is silent. -- George Herbert
Pension never inriched young man.
[Pension never enriched a young man.] -- George Herbert
Armour is light at table. -- George Herbert
Sweet discourse makes short daies and nights.
[Sweet discourse makes short days and nights.] -- George Herbert
Hee is not free that drawes his chaine. -- George Herbert
The command of custome is great. -- George Herbert
The Mill gets by going. -- George Herbert
The horse that drawes after him his halter, is not altogether escaped. -- George Herbert
Nothing is to be presumed on, or despaired of. -- George Herbert
You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows. -- George Herbert
That is not good language which all understand not. -- George Herbert
Neither praise nor dispraise thy selfe, thy actins serve the turne.
[Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn.] -- George Herbert
Ships feare fire more then water.
[Ships fear fire more than water.] -- George Herbert
A mountaine and a river are good neighbours. -- George Herbert
Wisedome hath one foot on Land, and another on Sea. -- George Herbert
Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear? -- George Herbert
A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands. -- George Herbert
God's mill grinds slow, but sure. -- George Herbert
Ah my deare God! though I am clean forgot, Let me not love thee, if I love thee not. -- George Herbert
Play not for gain, but sport. Who plays for more
Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart;
Perhaps his wife's too, and whom she hath bore. -- George Herbert
The beast that goes alwaies never wants blowes. -- George Herbert
Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning. -- George Herbert
Who says that fictions only and false hair
Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?
Is all good structure in a winding stair? -- George Herbert
Hee that makes a thing too fine, breakes it. -- George Herbert
Evening words are not like to morning. -- George Herbert
Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot. -- George Herbert
The fatt man knoweth not, what the leane thinketh. -- George Herbert
But who does hawk at eagles with a dove? -- George Herbert
Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies. -- George Herbert
He that measures not himselfe, is measured. -- George Herbert
Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother. -- George Herbert
Every one hath a foole in his sleeve. -- George Herbert
Least at thine own things laugh. -- George Herbert
For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave. -- George Herbert
In the mouth of a bad dog fals often a good bone. -- George Herbert
The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speakes.
[The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks.] -- George Herbert
Love makes a good eye squint. -- George Herbert
The market is the best garden. -- George Herbert
Be what thou wouldst seeme to be. -- George Herbert
Citties are taken by the eares. -- George Herbert
Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health. -- George Herbert
The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings. -- George Herbert
The Sundaies of man's life, Thredded together on time's string, Make bracelets to adorn the wife Of the eternal, glorious King. On Sunday heaven's gates stand ope; Blessings are plentiful and rife. More plentiful than hope. -- George Herbert
He that is fallen cannot helpe him that is downe.
[He that is fallen cannot help him that is down.] -- George Herbert
Some men plant an opinion they seem to erradicate. -- George Herbert
Many things are lost for want of asking. -- George Herbert
Ther's no great banquet but some fares ill. -- George Herbert
Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head. -- George Herbert
The Wolfe must dye in his owne skinne. -- George Herbert
It's a proud horse that will not carry his owne provender. -- George Herbert
Every one is witty for his owne purpose. -- George Herbert
Hee that keepes his owne makes warre. -- George Herbert
He that would be well, needs not goe from his owne house.
[He that would be well needs not go from his own house.] -- George Herbert
He that is his owne Counsellor knowes nothing sure but what hee hath laid out. -- George Herbert
Hee that workes after his owne manner, his head akes not at the matter. -- George Herbert
He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne. -- George Herbert
Who doth his owne businesse, foules not his hands. -- George Herbert
The Jewes spend at Easter, the Moors at marriages, the Christians in sutes. -- George Herbert
A sad, wise valor is the brave complexion. -- George Herbert
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life. -- George Herbert
Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy. -- George Herbert
Love and a cough cannot be hid. -- George Herbert
Every mile is two in winter -- George Herbert
He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea. -- George Herbert
The fault is as great as hee that is faulty. -- George Herbert
He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death. -- George Herbert
If you could runne, as you drinke, you might catch a hare. -- George Herbert
Chuse a horse made, and a wife to make. -- George Herbert
Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke. -- George Herbert
They talke of Christmas so long, that it comes. -- George Herbert
Foolish tongues talke by the dozen. -- George Herbert
There is more talke then trouble. -- George Herbert
Some evils are cured by contempt. -- George Herbert
He that deales in the world needes foure seeves. -- George Herbert
There's no such conquering weapon as the necessity of conquering. -- George Herbert
Warre is deaths feast. -- George Herbert
The faulty stands on his guard. -- George Herbert
If the wise erred not, it would goe hard with fooles.
[If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.] -- George Herbert
The ignorant hath an Eagles wings, and an Owles eyes.
[The ignorant hath an eagle's wings and an owl's eyes.] -- George Herbert
Service without reward is punishment. -- George Herbert
Beare with evill, and expect good. -- George Herbert
The eye and Religion can beare no jesting. -- George Herbert
It's a wicked thing to make a dearth ones garner. -- George Herbert
It's good tying the sack before it be full. -- George Herbert
The lion is not so fierce as they paint him. -- George Herbert
All came from, and will goe to others. -- George Herbert
Lord! who hath praise enough? -- George Herbert
One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues. -- George Herbert
If things were to be done twice, all would be wise. -- George Herbert
Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul. -- George Herbert
Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee. -- George Herbert
To a crazy ship, all winds are contrary. -- George Herbert
Labour as long liu'd, pray as even dying.
[Labor as long-lived, pray as ever dying.] -- George Herbert
A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb. -- George Herbert
When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill. -- George Herbert
The more women looke in their glasse, the lesse they looke to their house.
[The more women look in their glass, the less they look to their house.] -- George Herbert
For washing his hands, none sels his lands. -- George Herbert
Patience, time and money accommodate all things. -- George Herbert
A Caske and an ill custome must be broken. -- George Herbert
Living well is the best revenge. -- George Herbert
God provides for him that trusteth. -- George Herbert
Love bade me welcome;
yet my soul drew back,
Guiltie of dust and sin. -- George Herbert
The best mirror is an old friend. -- George Herbert
He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides. -- George Herbert
He
the country parson
is not witty or learned or eloquent, but holy. -- George Herbert
To a gratefull man give mony when he askes. -- George Herbert
When a friend askes, there is no to morrow.
[When a friend asks, there is no to-morrow.] -- George Herbert
The foole askes much, but hee is more foole that grants it. -- George Herbert
The Apothecaries morter spoiles the Luters musick. -- George Herbert
The bird loves her nest. -- George Herbert
Keep good company, and you shall be of the number. -- George Herbert
Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number. -- George Herbert
Good workmen are seldom rich. -- George Herbert
Was ever grief like mine? -- George Herbert
Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever. -- George Herbert
Unsound minds like unsound Bodies, if you feed, you poyson.
[Unsound minds, like unsound bodies, if you feed, you poison.] -- George Herbert
The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many.
[The little cannot be great unless he devour many.] -- George Herbert
Hee that brings good newes knockes hard. -- George Herbert
Hee that tells his wife newes is but newly married. -- George Herbert
Good newes may bee told at any time, but ill in the morning. -- George Herbert
Words and feathers the wind carries away. -- George Herbert
Curtesie on one side only lasts not long. -- George Herbert
Love is not found in the market. -- George Herbert
Women laugh when they can, and weepe when they will. -- George Herbert
Take heed of winde that comes in at a hole, and a reconciled Enemy. -- George Herbert
In a long journey straw waighs. -- George Herbert
One stroke fells not an oke. -- George Herbert
He that passeth a winters day escapes an enemy. -- George Herbert
The goate must browse where she is tyed. -- George Herbert
He that sends a foole expects one. -- George Herbert
Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought to be interposed. -- George Herbert
Hee that hath patience hath fatt thrushes for a farthing. -- George Herbert
I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree; For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade: at least some bird would trust Her household to me, and I should be just. -- George Herbert
He that marries late, marries ill. -- George Herbert
A wise man cares not for what he cannot have. -- George Herbert
When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin. -- George Herbert
The crow bewailes the sheepe, and then eates it. -- George Herbert
Step by step the ladder is ascended. -- George Herbert
An ill deede cannot bring honour. -- George Herbert
By doing nothing we learne to do ill. -- George Herbert
A kinsman, a friend, or whom you intreate, take not to serve you, if you will be served neately. -- George Herbert
The vertue of a coward is suspition. -- George Herbert
Mention not a halter in the house of him that was hanged. -- George Herbert
I had rather aske of my sire browne bread, then borrow of my neighbour white. -- George Herbert
The drunkard forfeits man and doth divest
All wordly right, save what he hath by beast. -- George Herbert
Two ill meales make the third a glutton. -- George Herbert
An examin'd enterprize goes on boldly. -- George Herbert
Flies are busiest about leane horses. -- George Herbert
Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church. -- George Herbert
Hee that marries for wealth sells his liberty. -- George Herbert
When God is made the master of a family, he disorders the disorderly. -- George Herbert
The Fox knowes much, but more he that catcheth him. -- George Herbert
Hee will spend a whole yeares rent at one meales meate. -- George Herbert
In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne. -- George Herbert
At Court, every one for himselfe.
[At court, everyone for himself.] -- George Herbert
There are more Physitians in health then drunkards. -- George Herbert
The soule needs few things, the body many. -- George Herbert
Building and marrying of Children are great wasters. -- George Herbert
Were there no fooles, badd ware would not passe. -- George Herbert
Marry your daughters betimes, lest they marry themselves. -- George Herbert
No tye can oblige the perfidious.
[No tie can oblige the perfidious.] -- George Herbert
The worst of law is, that one suit breedes twenty.
[The worst of law is that one suit breeds twenty.] -- George Herbert
The good mother sayes not, Will you? but gives. -- George Herbert
Hee that would be a Gentleman, let him goe to an assault. -- George Herbert
Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke. -- George Herbert
Look not for musk in a dog's kennel. -- George Herbert
Hee that demands misseth not, unlesse his demands be foolish. -- George Herbert
The filth under the white snow, the sunne discovers. -- George Herbert
Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path. -- George Herbert
Hee that labours and thrives spins gold. -- George Herbert
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee. -- George Herbert
To a great night, a great Lanthorne. -- George Herbert
The chiefe boxe of health is time. -- George Herbert
Nothing secure unlesse suspected. -- George Herbert
Thursday come, and the week's gone. -- George Herbert
He that goeth farre hath many encounters. -- George Herbert
Love is the true price of love. -- George Herbert
All is well with him, who is beloved of his neighbours. -- George Herbert
He that owes nothing, if he makes not mouthes at us, is courteous. -- George Herbert
If thou thy selfe canst doe it, attend no others helpe or hand. -- George Herbert
A disarmed peace is weake. -- George Herbert
He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise. -- George Herbert
Reckon right, and February hath one and thirty daies. -- George Herbert
Empty Chambers make foolish maides. -- George Herbert
The hearts letter is read in the eyes. -- George Herbert
Wealth is like rheume, it falles on the weakest parts. -- George Herbert
The ill that comes out of our mouth falles into our bosome. -- George Herbert
All that shakes falles not. -- George Herbert
Hee that stumbles and falles not, mends his pace. -- George Herbert
None is so wise, but the foole overtakes him. -- George Herbert
If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart. If thou art guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction. -- George Herbert
No profit to honour, no honour to Religion. -- George Herbert
He hath great neede of a foole, that plaies the foole himselfe. -- George Herbert
He that plaies his mony ought not to value it. -- George Herbert
He plaies well that winnes.
[He plays well that wins.] -- George Herbert
The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition. -- George Herbert
A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose. -- George Herbert
He that serves well needes not ask his wages. -- George Herbert
The effect speakes, the tongue needes not.
[The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.] -- George Herbert
Who hath no head, needes no heart. -- George Herbert
Health without money is halfe an ague. -- George Herbert
Peace, prattler. -- George Herbert
He can give little to his servant, that lickes his knife.
[He can give little to his servant that licks his knife.] -- George Herbert
Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned. -- George Herbert
A man well mounted is ever Cholerick. -- George Herbert
To go where the King goes afoot (i.e. to the stool). -- George Herbert
Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire. -- George Herbert
Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched. -- George Herbert
The evening praises the day, and the morning a frost. -- George Herbert
Better be a foole then a knave.
[Better be a fool than a knave.] -- George Herbert
Goods are theirs that enjoy them. -- George Herbert
Wood halfe burnt is easily kindled.
[Wood half-burnt is easily kindled.] -- George Herbert
He that feares leaves, let him not goe into the wood. -- George Herbert
Covetousnesse breaks the bag. -- George Herbert
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. -- George Herbert
He thinkes not well, that thinkes not againe. -- George Herbert
A little labour, much health. -- George Herbert
A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast. -- George Herbert
God gives his wrath by weight, and without weight his mercy. -- George Herbert
The wind in ones face makes one wise. -- George Herbert
He that is warme, thinkes all so. -- George Herbert
A white wall is the paper of a foole. -- George Herbert
The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords / If when the soul unto the lines accords. -- George Herbert
Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie. -- George Herbert
If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight. -- George Herbert
Hee that sendes a foole, means to follow him. -- George Herbert
That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust. -- George Herbert
The science of the modern school ... is in effect ... the acquisition of imperfectly analyzed misstatements about entrails, elements, and electricity ... -- George Herbert
Help thyself, and God will help thee. -- George Herbert
Tis easier to build two chimneys, then to maintaine one. -- George Herbert
A City that parlies is half gotten.
[A city that parleys is half gotten.] -- George Herbert
Surely if each one saw another's heart, There would be no commerce, No sale or bargain pass: all would disperse And live apart. -- George Herbert
Be not too presumptuously sure in any business; for things of this world depend on such a train of unseen chances that if it were in man's hands to set the tables, still he would not be certain to win the game. -- George Herbert
Half the world knows not how the other half lies. -- George Herbert
He that pitties another, remembers himselfe. -- George Herbert
By all means use sometimes to be alone. -- George Herbert
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. -- George Herbert
I had rather ride on an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me. -- George Herbert
There is great force hidden in a gentle command. -- George Herbert
A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold. -- George Herbert
Judge not the preacher; for he is thy judge:
If thou mislike him, thou conceiv'st him not.
God calleth preaching folly. Do not grudge
To pick out treasures from an earthen pot.
The worst speak something good. If all want sense,
God takes a text, and preaches patience. -- George Herbert
Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters. -- George Herbert
The back-doore robs the house. -- George Herbert
Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze.
[Spectacles are death's arquebuse.] -- George Herbert
To him that will, waies are not wanting. -- George Herbert
Perversnes makes one squint ey'd. -- George Herbert
Health and mony goe farre.
[Health and money go far.] -- George Herbert
He that gives me small gifts would have me live. -- George Herbert
If all fooles wore white Caps, wee should seeme a flock of geese. -- George Herbert
The tongue talkes at the heads cost. -- George Herbert
Divine ashes are better then earthly meale. -- George Herbert
If all fooles had babies, wee should want fuell. -- George Herbert
In great pedigrees there are Governours and Chandlers. -- George Herbert
The longest Day hath an Eueninge. -- George Herbert
The least foolish is wise. -- George Herbert
Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine. -- George Herbert
He that will do thee a good turne, either he will be gon or dye. -- George Herbert
Silkes and Satins put out the fire in the chimney. -- George Herbert
The table robbes more then a thiefe. -- George Herbert
The healthfull man can give counsell to the sick. -- George Herbert
Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest. -- George Herbert
Pardons and pleasantnesse are great revenges of slanders. -- George Herbert
Beate the dog before the Lyon. -- George Herbert
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
Better a snotty child, then his nose wip'd off. -- George Herbert
An idle head is a boxe for the winde. -- George Herbert
A good Judge conceives quickly, judges slowly. -- George Herbert
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit. -- George Herbert
In a good house all is quickly ready. -- George Herbert
In cloths cheap handsomeness, doth bear the bell. -- George Herbert
Money refused loose its brightness. -- George Herbert
He that hath little is the lesse durtie. -- George Herbert
Hee hath not liv'd, that lives not after death. -- George Herbert
Death used to be an executioner, but the gospel has made him just a gardner. -- George Herbert
If you walk on snow you cannot hide your footprints. -- George Herbert
The life of spies is to know, not bee known. -- George Herbert
Good and quickly seldom meet. -- George Herbert
Everyone puts his fault on the Times. -- George Herbert
He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it.
[He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it.] -- George Herbert
Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then by stars at their nativities. -- George Herbert
All things have their place, knew wee how to place them. -- George Herbert
He that studies his content, wants it. -- George Herbert
To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net. -- George Herbert
Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont. -- George Herbert
Conversation makes one what he is. -- George Herbert
Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring. -- George Herbert
Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater. -- George Herbert
The fault of the horse is put on the saddle. -- George Herbert
Being on sea saile, being on land settle.
[Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.] -- George Herbert
God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage, -- George Herbert
Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last). -- George Herbert
A great dowry is a bed full of brables.
[A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.] -- George Herbert
Be thrifty, but not covetous. -- George Herbert
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven. -- George Herbert
Vertue never growes old. -- George Herbert
Hee that makes himself a sheep, shall be eat by the wolfe. -- George Herbert
Hee that repaires not a part, builds all. -- George Herbert
More have repented speech then silence.
[More have repented speech than silence.] -- George Herbert
When God will punish, hee will first take away the understanding. -- George Herbert
Hee that comes of a hen must scrape. -- George Herbert
There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard. -- George Herbert
He that steals an egg will steal an ox. -- George Herbert
An oath that is not to bee made is not to be kept. -- George Herbert
The comforters head never akes. -- George Herbert
When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore. -- George Herbert
Water a farre off quencheth not fire. -- George Herbert
What your glasse telles you, will not be told by Councell. -- George Herbert
To the counsel of fools a wooden bell. -- George Herbert
The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children. -- George Herbert
He that tells a secret is anothers servant.
[He that tells a secret is another's servant.] -- George Herbert
Calmness is great advantage; he that lets Another chafe, may warm him at his fire. -- George Herbert
Vertue and a Trade are the best portion for Children. -- George Herbert
Ever since we weare cloathes, we know not one another. -- George Herbert
Every thing new is fine. -- George Herbert
An ill labourer quarrells with his tooles. -- George Herbert
The constancy of the benefit of the yeere in their seasons argues a Deity. -- George Herbert
Jest not with the eye or with Religion. -- George Herbert
The first and last frosts are the worst. -- George Herbert
Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle.
[Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.] -- George Herbert
Drought never brought dearth. -- George Herbert
Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing ... a grateful heart! -- George Herbert
Of faire things, the Autumne is faire. -- George Herbert
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
Where there is no honour, there is no griefe. -- George Herbert
Never was strumpet faire. -- George Herbert
Good workemen are seldome rich. -- George Herbert
When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. God is more there than thou: for thou art there Only by his permission. Then beware, That leads from earth to heaven. -- George Herbert
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.] -- George Herbert
To gaine teacheth how to spend.
[To gain teacheth how to spend.] -- George Herbert
Love makes all hard hearts gentle. -- George Herbert
Little pitchers have wide eares.
[Little pitchers have wide ears.] -- George Herbert
Saint Luke was a Saint and a Physitian, yet is dead. -- George Herbert
God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes. -- George Herbert
Who paies the Physitian, does the cure. -- George Herbert
The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony. -- George Herbert
He carries well, to whom it waighes not.
[He carries well, to whomit weighs not.] -- George Herbert
A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters. -- George Herbert