Quotes By George Herbert

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

Punishment is lame, but it comes.

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

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

Better never begin than never make an end.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

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

The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.

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

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

The eyes have one language everywhere.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

The resolved mind hath no cares.

Night is the mother of counsels.

None knows the weight of another's burden.

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

Love and a cough cannot be hid.

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.

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

The shortest answer is doing.

Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.

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.

He hath no leisure who useth it not.