George Herbert Quotes - Page 47

Quotes about:

• The chiefe boxe of health is time.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.360

  4 Copy quote

• The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire.

  George Herbert

  Children, Fire, Heard

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.330

  4 Copy quote

• The cholerick man never wants woe.

  George Herbert

  Men, Want, Woe

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.342

  4 Copy quote

• The Chollerick drinkes, the Melancholick eats, the Flegmatick sleepes.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1941). “The works of George Herbert”, Oxford University Press

  4 Copy quote

• The comforters head never akes.

  George Herbert

  Comforter

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.335

  4 Copy quote

• The command of custome is great.

  George Herbert

  Command

  George Herbert (1857). “Works: In Prose & Verse”, p.321

  4 Copy quote

• The constancy of the benefit of the yeere in their seasons argues a Deity.

  George Herbert

  Deities, Benefits, Arguing

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.353

  4 Copy quote

• The corne hides it self in the snow, as an old man in furrs.

  George Herbert

  Men, Self, Snow

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.326

  4 Copy quote

• The crow bewailes the sheepe, and then eates it.

  George Herbert

  Crow

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.338

  4 Copy quote

• The dainties of the great are the teares of the poore.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1841). “The remains of ... George Herbert”, p.178

  4 Copy quote

• The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon.

  George Herbert

  Young

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.371

  4 Copy quote

• The Devill is not alwaies at one doore.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.316

  4 Copy quote

• The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.

  George Herbert

  Men, Void

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.373

  4 Copy quote

• The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.

  George Herbert

  Dog, Bones

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.338

  4 Copy quote

• The dog that licks ashes, trust not with meale.
  [The dog that licks ashes trust not with meal.]

  George Herbert

  Dog, Meals, Ashes

  4 Copy quote

• The effect speakes, the tongue needes not.
  [The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.]

  George Herbert

  Needs, Tongue, Speak

  4 Copy quote

• The escaped mouse ever feeles the taste of the bait.
  [The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.]

  George Herbert

  Bait, Taste, Feels

  4 Copy quote

• The evening praises the day, and the morning a frost.

  George Herbert

  Morning, Frost, Evening

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.311

  4 Copy quote

• The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.

  George Herbert

  Eye

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.322

  4 Copy quote

• The eye is bigger then the belly.
  [The eye is bigger than the belly.]

  George Herbert

  Eye, Bigger, Belly

  4 Copy quote

• The eye will have his part.

  George Herbert

  Eye

  George Herbert (1871). “The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum”, p.237

  4 Copy quote

• The fault is as great as hee that is faulty.

  George Herbert

  Faults

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.333

  4 Copy quote

• The fault of the horse is put on the saddle.

  George Herbert

  Horse, Faults, Saddles

  George Herbert, Izaak Walton, Barnabas Oley (1848). “The Remains of that Sweet Singer of The Temple, George Herbert ...”, p.256

  4 Copy quote

• The faulty stands on his guard.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.172

  4 Copy quote

• The first and last frosts are the worst.

  George Herbert

  Frost, Lasts, Firsts

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.179

  8 Copy quote

Page 47 of 51

First

← Prev

42

43

44

45

46

47

48

49

50

51

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin