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For I must write to The Times tonight, and save the world from sin. — A.P. Herbert

It's good tying the sack before it be full. — George Herbert

A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso. — A.P. Herbert

Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze.
[Spectacles are death's arquebuse.] — George Herbert

The portions of a woman which appeal to man's depravity Are constructed with considerable care. — A.P. Herbert

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time. — A.P. Herbert

The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual. — Herbert Spencer

An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected. — A.P. Herbert

Greenfly, it's difficult to see Why God, who made the rose, made thee. — A.P. Herbert

People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament. — A.P. Herbert

The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose. — A.P. Herbert

There are rich counsels in the trees. — Herbert P. Horne

Holy Mother we do believe,
That without sin Thou didst conceive;
May we now in Thee believing,
Also sin without conceiving. — A.P. Herbert

They'd chosen always the clear, safe course that leads ever downward into stagnation. — Frank Herbert

Some lies are easier to believe than the truth. — Frank Herbert

An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue. — George Herbert

Let's stop somebody from doing something! Everybody does too much. — A.P. Herbert

Canterbury was gone from the memories of men, as was the planet which had known it. — Frank Herbert

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal. — Herbert Spencer

We will not run," Paul said. "We'll move with dignity. We'll do what must be done. — Frank Herbert

The life of man is a winter way. — George Herbert

With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us. — George Herbert

The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God. — George Herbert

Craft against craft makes no living. — George Herbert

Divine grace was never slow. — George Herbert

The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right
decisions. — Frank Herbert

Justice should be cheap but judges expensive. — A.P. Herbert

I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum. — A.P. Herbert

He plaies well that winnes.
[He plays well that wins.] — George Herbert

The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'. — A.P. Herbert

As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me. — A.P. Herbert

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep — A.P. Herbert

This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade. — A.P. Herbert

The essence of humour is surprise; that is why you laugh when you see a joke in Punch. — A.P. Herbert

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. — A.P. Herbert

Survival is staying alive one breath at a time. p. 251 — Frank Herbert

Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, For mother will be there. — A.P. Herbert

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer. — George Herbert

The Wolfe must dye in his owne skinne. — George Herbert

Who paies the Physitian, does the cure. — George Herbert

It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire. — Frank Herbert

A hatt is not made for one shower. — George Herbert

The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will. — Herbert Marcuse

I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything. — George Herbert Palmer

how inevitable it was that the aristocrat would refuse his final duty - which was to step aside and vanish into history. — Frank Herbert

Although the sun shine, leave not thy cloake at home. — George Herbert

She thought of the boy's features as an exquisite distillation out of random patterns-endless queues of happenstance meeting at this nexus. — Frank Herbert

No naked man is sought after to be rifled. — George Herbert

One stroke fells not an oke. — George Herbert

The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature. — Herbert Marcuse

Hee is a foole that thinks not that another thinks. — George Herbert

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody. — Herbert Bayard Swope

I know the ways of Pleasure, the sweet strains, The lullings and the relishes of it. — George Herbert

It is obvious that while science is struggling to bring Heaven to earth some men are using its materials in the construction of Hell. — Herbert Hoover

There is no reality
only our own order imposed on everything. — Brian Herbert

Stay a little and news will find you. — George Herbert

Soft and faire goes farre. — George Herbert

At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon. — Herbert Hoover

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty. — Herbert Hoover

Danger it selfe the best remedy for danger. — George Herbert

After you have once ridden behind a motorcycle escort, you are never the same again — Herbert H. Lehman

It occurred to her that mercy was the ability to stop, if only for a moment. There was no mercy where there could be no stopping. — Frank Herbert

The shortest answer is doing. — George Herbert

Only a sweet and virtuous soul,
Like season'd timbered, never gives;
But though the whole world turn to coal,
Then chiefly lives. — George Herbert

There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors. — Frank Herbert

Mercy is a chimera. — Frank Herbert

Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement — Herbert Hoover

Don't think you are nothing ...
there is someone who truly thinks that you are everything ... — Michael J Herbert

The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon. — George Herbert

If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself ethics, and ethics is epistemology. — Herbert Marcuse