Robert Herrick Quotes
"In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep."
- Robert Herrick
(Related: Kings, Moderation, Sheep, Skin)
"Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun."
- Robert Herrick
(Related: Kiss, First)
"Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well."
- Robert Herrick
(Related: Life, Virtue, First, Man)
"Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end."
- Robert Herrick
(Related: End, Fight, First)
"It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish."
- Robert Herrick
(Related: Happiness, Energy, Interest, Man, Open, Pursuit, Wit)
"Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out."
- Robert Herrick
(Related: Doubt, End, Nothing, Will)
"What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love."
- Robert Herrick
(Related: Love, Kiss)
"Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee."
- Robert Herrick
(Related: Love, Heart, Will)
"Tears are the noble language of the eye."
- Robert Herrick
(Related: Eye, Language, Tears)
"The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam."
- Robert Herrick
(Related: Home, Soul, Body, Poor)
"Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old."
- Robert Herrick
(Related: Old, Succeed)
"Who covets more is evermore a slave."
- Robert Herrick
"The person lives twice who lives the first life well."
- Robert Herrick
(Related: Life, First)
"Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings."
- Robert Herrick
(Related: Advice, Danger, Kings)