George Herbert Quotes
+2He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
- George Herbert
+1War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
- George Herbert
+1Love, and a cough, cannot be hid.
- George Herbert
+1One hour’s sleep before midnight is worth three after.
- George Herbert
+1One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
- George Herbert
+1A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.
- George Herbert
+1By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear.
- George Herbert
+1You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
- George Herbert
+1God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
- George Herbert
+1I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.
- George Herbert Palmer
+1Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away.
- George Herbert
+1Every mile is two in winter.
- George Herbert
+1Hope is the poor man’s bread.
- George Herbert
+1A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.
- George Herbert
+1The offender never pardons.
- George Herbert
+1A crooked log makes a strait fire.
- George Herbert
+1Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
- George Herbert
+1The chicken is the country’s, but the city eats it.
- George Herbert
+1Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
- George Herbert
+1O what a sight were Man, if his attires Did alter with his minde; And like a dolphins skinne, his clothes combin’d With his desires!
- George Herbert
+1Woe be to him that reads but one book.
- George Herbert
+1Every path hath a puddle.
- George Herbert
0The best mirror is an old friend.
- George Herbert
