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It's good tying the sack before it be full.
— George Herbert
Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze.
[Spectacles are death's arquebuse.] — George Herbert
[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
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
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
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
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
— Herbert Spencer
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
Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.
— A.P. Herbert
He plaies well that winnes.
[He plays well that wins.] — George Herbert
[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
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
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
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
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