George Herbert Quotes

George Herbert shares plain-spoken, practical proverbs about health, effort and consequences.

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40. Love, and a cough, cannot be hid.

41. Ill ware is never cheap. Pleasing ware is half sold.

42. When a dog is drowning, everyone offers him drink.

43. Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

44. Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns.

45. Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.

46. Good words are worth much, and cost little.

47. Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

48. Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.

49. Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.

50. Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.

51. The best mirror is an old friend.

52. When you are an anvil, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

53. He that lies with dogs, riseth with fleas.

54. He that is not handsome at twenty, nor strong at thirty, nor rich at forty, nor wise at fifty, will never be handsome, strong, rich, or wise.

55. The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.

56. Trust not one night's ice.

57. For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.

58. Pension never enriched young man.

59. Living well is the best revenge.

60. One enemy is too much.

61. Thursday come, and the week is gone.

62. Time is the rider that breaks youth.

63. Show me a liar, and I'll show thee a thief.

64. One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

65. Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.

66. One sword keeps another in the sheath.

67. God's mill grinds slow, but sure.

68. He that lends, gives.

69. Words are women, deeds are men.

70. Poverty is no sin.

71. None knows the weight of another's burden.

72. One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.

73. He hath no leisure who useth it not.

74. Half the world knows not how the other half lives.

75. Life is half spent before we know what it is.

76. Every mile is two in winter.

77. The eye is bigger than the belly.

78. His bark is worse than his bite.

79. There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.

80. Woe be to him that reads but one book.

81. To a crafty man, a crafty and an halfe.

82. Beare with evill, and expect good.

83. In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle. [In the house of the fiddler all fiddle.]

84. By all means use some time to be alone, salute thyself, see what thy soul doth wear.

85. Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning.

86. He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).

87. If all fooles had babies, wee should want fuell.

88. Weight justly and sell dearely.

89. Could have recovered greenness?

90. In every country dogges bite.

91. The back-doore robs the house.

92. In cloths cheap handsomeness, doth bear the bell.

93. Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.

94. Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze. [Spectacles are death's arquebuse.]

95. None saies his Garner is full.

96. God sends cold according to clothes.

97. He that contemplates hath a day without night.

98. The comforters head never akes.

99. Spies are the ears and eyes of Princes.

100. Look not for musk in a dog's kennel.