George Herbert Quotes
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Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.
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The resolved mind hath no cares.
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Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
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One sword keeps another in the sheath.
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One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
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Be thrifty, but not covetous.
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A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.
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The shortest answer is doing.
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A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
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Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.
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Good words are worth much, and cost little.
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Punishment is lame, but it comes.
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Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
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A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.
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The eyes have one language everywhere.
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Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
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He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
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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.
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Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
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The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.