George Herbert
192 quotes
Biography
"Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life."
"A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread."
"Knowledge is folly unless grace guide it."
"Bibles laid open, millions of surprises."
"Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?"
"Do well and right, and let the world sink."
"Be useful where thou livest."
"1. Man proposeth, God disposeth."
"13. The scalded dog feares cold water."
"14. Pleasing ware is halfe sould."
"15. Light burthens long borne growe heavie."
"18. When all sinnes growe old covetousnesse is young."
"20. You cannot know wine by the barrell."
"49. Love and a cough cannot be hid."
"61. Ill ware is never cheape."
"67. Never had ill workman good tooles."
"74. Hearken to Reason, or shee will bee heard."
"77. When a dog is a-drowning every one offers him drink."
"79. Who is so deafe as he that will not heare?"
"80. He that is warme thinkes all so."
"82. Hee that goes barefoot must not plant thornes."
"86. He that lives well is learned enough."
"89. All truths are not to be told."
"104. Leave jesting while it pleaseth, lest it turne to earnest."
"105. Deceive not thy physitian, confessor, nor lawyer."