George Herbert Quotes

"Be thrifty, but not covetous."
- George Herbert

"He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea."
- George Herbert
(Related: Sea, Will)

"He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise."
- George Herbert
(Related: Will)

"He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world."
- George Herbert
(Related: Credit, World)

"He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven."
- George Herbert
(Related: Heaven)

"He hath no leisure who useth it not."
- George Herbert
(Related: Leisure)

"Good words are worth much, and cost little."
- George Herbert
(Related: Words, Worth)

"Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee."
- George Herbert

"Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."
- George Herbert
(Related: Time, Work, May, Right, Tools, Will)

"Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer."
- George Herbert

"Spend not on hopes."
- George Herbert

"Better never begin than never make an end."
- George Herbert
(Related: End)

"Storms make the oak grow deeper roots."
- George Herbert
(Related: Oak, Storms)

"A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit."
- George Herbert
(Related: Compromise)

"A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread."
- George Herbert
(Related: Heart)

"Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy."
- George Herbert
(Related: Truth, Error, Fault)

"A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin."
- George Herbert
(Related: Learning, Man, Memory)

"In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge."
- George Herbert
(Related: Humor, Knowledge, Conversation, Wit, Worth)

"If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him."
- George Herbert

"Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby."
- George Herbert
(Related: Fault, Needs, Nothing)

"Hell is full of good meanings and wishings."
- George Herbert
(Related: Hell)

"You must lose a fly to catch a trout."
- George Herbert
(Related: Trout)

"Skill and confidence are an unconquered army."
- George Herbert
(Related: Army, Confidence, Skill)

"One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father."
- George Herbert
(Related: Father, Sons)

"Punishment is lame, but it comes."
- George Herbert
(Related: Punishment)

"Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night."
- George Herbert
(Related: Day, Key, Night, Prayer)

"War makes thieves and peace hangs them."
- George Herbert
(Related: Peace, War)

"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters."
- George Herbert
(Related: Father)

"Sometimes the best gain is to lose."
- George Herbert
(Related: Gain)

"Living well is the best revenge."
- George Herbert
(Related: Living, Revenge)

"Love and a cough cannot be hid."
- George Herbert
(Related: Love)

"Many kiss the hand they wish cut off."
- George Herbert
(Related: Kiss)

"Never was a miser a brave soul."
- George Herbert
(Related: Soul, Miser)

"Night is the mother of counsels."
- George Herbert
(Related: Mother, Night)

"None knows the weight of another's burden."
- George Herbert
(Related: Burden, Weight)

"One sword keeps another in the sheath."
- George Herbert

"The shortest answer is doing."
- George Herbert

"The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition."
- George Herbert
(Related: Atheism, Devil, Superstition, World)

"Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life."
- George Herbert
(Related: Life, Love, Friendship, Taste, Wine)

"The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one."
- George Herbert
(Related: Eyes, Needs)

"Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path."
- George Herbert
(Related: God, Wrath)

"Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health."
- George Herbert
(Related: Health, Love, Mistake, Wealth, Language, Nothing)

"Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them."
- George Herbert

"The eyes have one language everywhere."
- George Herbert
(Related: Eyes, Language)

"The resolved mind hath no cares."
- George Herbert
(Related: Mind)

"The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken."
- George Herbert
(Related: Mouse)

"There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it."
- George Herbert
(Related: Life, Man)

"There is great force hidden in a gentle command."
- George Herbert
(Related: Force)

"Life is half spent before we know what it is."
- George Herbert
(Related: Life)

"It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush."
- George Herbert
(Related: Blush, Poor, Spirit)

"There would be no great men if there were no little ones."
- George Herbert
(Related: Men)

"The offender never pardons."
- George Herbert