Quote #77
The eye is bigger than the belly.
More from George Herbert
- Every mile is two in winter.
- His bark is worse than his bite.
- Life is half spent before we know what it is.
- There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.
- Half the world knows not how the other half lives.
- Woe be to him that reads but one book.
- He hath no leisure who useth it not.
- One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.