W. L. George Quotes

All great authors are seers.

To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.

Love is blind; couch not his eyes.

The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd.

Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.

To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.

Surely if each one saw another's heart, There would be no commerce, No sale or bargain pass: all would disperse And live apart.

The fatt man knoweth not, what the leane thinketh.

Good workemen are seldome rich.

Trust no friend with that you need fear him if he were your enemy.

Yeeres know more then bookes.

Love is the true price of love.

When war begins, then hell openeth.

He that endures is not overcome.

Thinke of ease, but worke on.

Beare with evill, and expect good.

The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.

All things in their beeing are good for something.

One foote is better then two crutches.

Things well fitted abide.

He that hath a head of waxe must not walke in the sunne. [He that hath a head of wax must not walk in the sun.]

God keepe me from foure houses, an Vsurers, a Taverne, a Spittle, and a Prison.

Man Proposeth, God disposeth.

When God will, no winde but brings raine.

Everyone thinks his sack heaviest.

Everyone puts his fault on the Times.

God gives his wrath by weight, and without weight his mercy.

Little dogs start the Hare, the great get her.

Unsound minds like unsound Bodies, if you feed, you poyson. [Unsound minds, like unsound bodies, if you feed, you poison.]

Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose.

You cannot hide an eele in a sacke.

Death keepes no Calender.

Folly growes without watering.

A man is known to be mortal by two things, Sleep and Lust.

Souldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.

Talking payes no toll.

The blind eate many a flie. [The blind eat many a fly.]

Whether shall the Oxe goe, where he shall not labour?

God's mill grinds slow, but sure.

He that once deceives is ever suspected.

Words and feathers the wind carries away.

A penny spar'd is twice got.

A white wall is the paper of a foole.

An oath that is not to bee made is not to be kept.

Divine grace was never slow.

Drought never brought dearth.

Good words quench more then a bucket of water.

Lord! who hath praise enough?

Much spends the traveller, more then the abider.

If I could have my way I would place the Deity on half-pay as the Government of this Country did the subaltern officers.