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Amiens was taken by the Fox, and retaken by the Lion.
— George Herbert
They that know one another salute a farre off.
— George Herbert
Learn weeping, and thou shalt gain laughing.
— George Herbert
It's good tying the sack before it be full.
— George Herbert
The eye is bigger then the belly.
[The eye is bigger than the belly.] — George Herbert
[The eye is bigger than the belly.] — George Herbert
He that hath no hony in his pot, let him have it in his mouth.
— George Herbert
The market is the best garden.
— George Herbert
Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze.
[Spectacles are death's arquebuse.] — George Herbert
[Spectacles are death's arquebuse.] — George Herbert
There is more talke then trouble.
— George Herbert
To buy deare is not bounty.
— George Herbert
A coole mouth, and warme feet, live long.
— George Herbert
He that lives well sees a farre off.
— George Herbert
All the Armes of England will not arme feare.
— George Herbert
A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
— 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 filth under the white snow, the sunne discovers.
— George Herbert
Heresie may be easier kept out, then shooke off.
— George Herbert
What your glasse telles you, will not be told by Councell.
— George Herbert
Who will make a doore of gold must knock a naile every day.
— George Herbert
To be too busie gets contempt.
— George Herbert
He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
— George Herbert
A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire.
— George Herbert
None saies his Garner is full.
— George Herbert
One hand washeth another, and both the face.
— George Herbert
Though punishment be slow, still it comes.
— George Herbert
The back-doore robs the house.
— George Herbert
Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
— George Herbert
Hee that goes to bed thirsty riseth healthy.
— George Herbert
The offender never pardons.
— George Herbert
Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.
— George Herbert
Wisedome hath one foot on Land, and another on Sea.
— George Herbert
Love makes a good eye squint.
— George Herbert
Thursday come, and the week's gone.
— George Herbert
Service without reward is punishment.
— George Herbert
Who doth his owne businesse, foules not his hands.
— George Herbert
We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
— George Herbert
Marry your daughters betimes, lest they marry themselves.
— George Herbert
Every one stretcheth his legges according to his coverlet.
[Every one stretches his legs according to his coverlet.] — George Herbert
[Every one stretches his legs according to his coverlet.] — George Herbert
At dinner my man appeares.
— George Herbert
Evening words are not like to morning.
— George Herbert
Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another.
— George Herbert
He is onely bright that shines by himselfe.
— George Herbert
Spend not on hopes.
— George Herbert
To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
— George Herbert
When prayers are done, my Lady is ready.
— George Herbert
When a dog is drowning, everyone offers him a drink.
— George Herbert
He who has the pepper may season as he lists.
— George Herbert
Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
— George Herbert
Danger it selfe the best remedy for danger.
— George Herbert
Empty Chambers make foolish maides.
— George Herbert
Divine grace was never slow.
— George Herbert
Craft against craft makes no living.
— George Herbert
The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.
— George Herbert
The life of man is a winter way.
— George Herbert
An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.
— George Herbert
With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
— George Herbert
He plaies well that winnes.
[He plays well that wins.] — George Herbert
[He plays well that wins.] — George Herbert
The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon.
— 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
The shortest answer is doing.
— George Herbert
Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice.
— George Herbert
Soft and faire goes farre.
— George Herbert
Stay a little and news will find you.
— George Herbert
The Wolfe must dye in his owne skinne.
— George Herbert
Who paies the Physitian, does the cure.
— George Herbert
A hatt is not made for one shower.
— George Herbert
I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.
— George Herbert Palmer
Although the sun shine, leave not thy cloake at home.
— George Herbert
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
— George Herbert
No naked man is sought after to be rifled.
— George Herbert
One stroke fells not an oke.
— George Herbert
Hee is a foole that thinks not that another thinks.
— George Herbert
The command of custome is great.
— George Herbert
Your pot broken seemes better then my whole one.
— George Herbert
I know the ways of Pleasure, the sweet strains, The lullings and the relishes of it.
— George Herbert
I wept when I was borne, and every day shewes why.
[I wept when I was born and every day explains why.] — George Herbert
[I wept when I was born and every day explains why.] — George Herbert
Praise none too much, for all are fickle.
— George Herbert
Who hath no hast in his businesse, mountaines to him seeme valleys.
— George Herbert
Disgraces are like cherries, one drawes another.
[Disgraces are like cherries, one draws another.] — George Herbert
[Disgraces are like cherries, one draws another.] — George Herbert
It's a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
— George Herbert
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself.
— George Herbert
Chuse a horse made, and a wife to make.
— George Herbert
The wrongs of a Husband or Master are not reproached.
— George Herbert
The tree that God plants, no winde hurts it.
— George Herbert
The comforters head never akes.
— George Herbert
A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose.
— George Herbert
Nothing dries sooner then a teare.
— George Herbert
Vertue never growes old.
— George Herbert
Patience, time and money accommodate all things.
— George Herbert
Hee that hath a wife and children wants not businesse.
— George Herbert
For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.
— George Herbert
Were there no fooles, badd ware would not passe.
— George Herbert
The Wolfe knowes, what the ill beast thinkes.
— George Herbert
God sends cold according to clothes.
— George Herbert