George Herbert Quotes

Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

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

Who says that fictions only and false hairBecome a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?Is all good structure in a winding stair?

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.

Little pitchers have wide ears.

A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.

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

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.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Society is unity in diversity.

Drink not the third glass - which thou can'st not tame when once it is within thee.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

A great ship asks deep water.

He that will learn to pray let him to sea.

The best mirror is an old friend.

Praise the sea but keep on land.

Living well is the best revenge.

Deceive not thy physician confessor nor lawyer.

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

Woe be to him that reads but one book.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.

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

One father is more than 100 schoolmasters.

Skill and confidence are an uncon-quered army.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

Hope is the poor man's bread.

The chicken is the country's but the city eats it.

Night is the mother of counsels.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Man is no star, but a quick coalOf mortal fire:Who blows it not, nor doth controlA faint desire,

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

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.

Thou who has given so much to me give one thing more: a grateful heart.

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

None knows the weight of another's burden.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

God's mill grinds slow but sure.

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.