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 39

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

Music helps not the toothache.

Music helps not the toothache.

Helping, Toothache

Jacula Prudentum (published posthumously, 1651). This is probably an older proverb.

All truths are not to be told.

Truth

George Herbert (1861). “The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel”, p.247

Resort to sermons, but to prayers most: Praying's the end of preaching.

Prayer, Praying, Ends

George Herbert (1861). “The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel”, p.15

If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains. If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.

Pain, Joy, Deeds

George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.18

If that thy fame with ev'ry toy be pos'd, 'Tis a thin web, which poysonous fancies make; But the great souldier's honour was compos'd Of thicker stuf, which would endure a shake. Wisdom picks friends; civility plays the rest; A toy shunn'd cleanly passeth with the best.

Play, Toys, Fancy

Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where, And when, and how thy business may be done. Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller, Though he alights sometimes still goeth on.

Mind, Done, May

George Herbert (1703). “The temple, sacred poems and private ejaculations. [With] The synagogue”, p.12

A piece of a Churchyard fits everybody.

Pieces, Fit

George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.323

A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as forThy laws Makes it and th'action fine.

Law, Rooms, Action

'The Elixir', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously, 1633).

Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another.

Men, Limbs, Proportion

'Man', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously, 1633).

Better a barefoot than none.

Barefoot

George Herbert, Izaak Walton, Barnabas Oley (1848). “The Remains of that Sweet Singer of The Temple, George Herbert ...”, p.250

The Jews spend at Easter.

Easter, Jew

George Herbert, William Jerdan (1853). “The Works of the Rev. George Hebert”, p.380

If I have enough for myself and family, I am steward only for myself; if I have more, I am but a steward of that abundance for others.

Abundance, Enough, Stewards

Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.

Servant

George Herbert (1856). “The Works of George Herbert, in Prose and Verse: Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, Incumbent of Bear Wood. With Illustrations”, p.334

Cities seldome change Religion only.

Cities

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.318

Citties are taken by the eares.

Taken

Civill Wars of France made a million of Atheists, and 30000 Witches.

Atheist, War, France

George Herbert (1959). “The works of George Herbert”

Cloath thee in war, arme thee in peace.

War, Thee

George Herbert (1959). “The works of George Herbert”

Councell breakes not the head.

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.337

Covetousnesse breaks the bag.

Bags, Break

George Herbert (1941). “The works of George Herbert”, Oxford University Press

Craft against craft makes no living.

Crafts

George Herbert, Joseph Hall (1855). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall”, p.321

Criticks are like brushers of Noblemens cloaths.

Cruelty is more cruell, if we defer the pain.

Pain, Cruelty, Ifs

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.370

Dally not with mony or women. [Dally not with money or women.]

Discreet women have neither eyes nor eares. [Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears.]

Eye, Ears, Discreet

Divine grace was never slow.

Grace, Divine, Divine Grace

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

You May Also Like: