George Herbert Quotes

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

Man is no star, but a quick coalOf mortal fire:Who blows it not, nor doth controlA faint desire,

Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,The bridal of the earth and sky;The dew shall weep thy fall t...

Who says that fictions only and false hairBecome a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?Is all good st...

I will complain, yet praise;I will bewail, approve:And all my sowre-sweet dayesI will lament, and lo...

Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

That flesh is but the glass, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be cr...

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tool...

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

The best mirror is an old friend.

Living well is the best revenge.

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever re...

The chicken is the country's but the city eats it.

Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back,Guiltie of dust and sin.

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be hands...

One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Little pitchers have wide ears.

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

A great ship asks deep water.

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

Deceive not thy physician confessor nor lawyer.

Thou who has given so much to me give one thing more: a grateful heart.

Woe be to him that reads but one book.

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

One father is more than 100 schoolmasters.

Drink not the third glass - which thou can'st not tame when once it is within thee.

God's mill grinds slow but sure.

Hope is the poor man's bread.

A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

Praise the sea but keep on land.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

None knows the weight of another's burden.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

He that will learn to pray let him to sea.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Skill and confidence are an uncon-quered army.

Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good dige...

Night is the mother of counsels.