George Herbert Quotes

The best mirror is an old friend.

A great dowry is a bed full of brables. [A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.]

The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.

You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows.

A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.

The eyes have one language everywhere.

Help thyself, and God will help thee.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing... a grateful heart!

Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.

Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

Every path hath a puddle.

Society is unity in diversity.

By suppers more have been killed than Galen ever cured

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

Music helps not the toothache.

Be thrifty, but not covetous.

Where there is peace, God is.

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

Castles are Forrests of stones.

Every mile is two in winter

No barber shaves so close but another finds worke.

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 that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

Living well is the best revenge.

Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

Bibles laid open, millions of surprises.

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

For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave.

A good digestion turneth all to health.

Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.

That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.

To whirle the eyes too much shewes a Kites braine.

God sees hearts as we see faces.

Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.

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.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

He--the country parson--is not witty or learned or eloquent, but holy.

If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart. If thou art guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction.

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

Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.

By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

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

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

Better the feet slip then the tongue.