Authors:

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

George Herbert Quotes - Page 32

All Quotes Age Art Beauty Bones Business Children Church Conscience Country Desire Devil Earth Easter Evil Faith Food Forgiveness Giving Gold Grace Greatness Grief Heart Heaven Hell Home Honesty House Husband Inspirational Journey Labour Language Liberty Life Literature Loss Love Lying Money Morning Pain Pleasure Poetry Pot Praise Prayer Purpose Running Science Shame Sin Skins Solitude Son Sorrow Soul Sports Spring Suffering Sunday Time Trade Truth War Water Wealth Wife Wine Winter Wisdom Wit Youth

It's an ill councell that hath no escape.

It's an ill councell that hath no escape.

Ill

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.351

It's better to be head of a Lyzard, then the tayle of a Lyon.

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.344

It's good tying the sack before it be full.

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.356

It's more paine to doe nothing then something.

Doe, Paine

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.358

It's no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.

Bows, Fishes

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.329

Knowledge is no burden.

Burden

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.349

Law sutes consume time, and mony, and rest, and friends.

Law

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.353

Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.

House, Lawyer, Built

George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.321

Leave jesting whiles it pleaseth, lest it turne to earnest.

Earnest

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.319

Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.

Lying, Men, Looks

George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.300

Let none say, I will not drinke water.

Water

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.330

Let not him that feares feathers come among wild-foule.

Feathers

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.317

Litle stickes kindle the fire; great ones put it out.

Fire, Kindles, Great Ones

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.331

Little losses amaze, great tame.

Loss, Littles

George Herbert, Joseph Hall (1855). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall”, p.325

Long jesting was never good.

Long

George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.265

Losse embraceth shame.

Shame

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.345

Love askes faith, and faith firmenesse.

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.342

Love is not found in the market.

Love Is, Found

George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.304

Love makes a good eye squint.

Eye

George Herbert, Joseph Hall (1855). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall”, p.311

Love makes one fitt for any work.

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.347

Many friends in generall, one in speciall.

Many Friends

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.329

Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.

Mourning

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.327

Marry your daughters betimes, lest they marry themselves.

Daughter, Your Daughter, Our Daughter

George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.279

Men speake of the faire, as things went with them there.

Men

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.322

Mention not a halter in the house of him that was hanged.

House

George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.312

You May Also Like: